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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1894)
Worn Oat In narnecB. In the harness of every day husinesi work inen and women wearoutprematorely. For some of us it is not easy, fitr others, again, it is impossible to get out of harness. It is the indexible yoke, the strongly forge t un breakable shackle of Imperative servitude needful to ourselves and those mo*t dear t » us. The weight of It. often bows many of us Into the grave before our time, but It is un doubtedly true that there is a means of ren der! g the burthen less onorous, and of mlt igatlng the ailments that unremitting toll— especially of a sedentary kind -has a tend ency to produce. Over worked clerks In counting houses, mill operatives, book keepers type writers and others testify to tile reviving restorative effects of ilostet ter's Stomach It liters, and its power of re newing physical and mental energy when • vert sked and on the wane. Dyspepsia, failing vigor, rheumatic, bowel and kid ney complaints yield to this benefic ent med Ictiif*. which is a preventive of malaria sad counteracts t he* effects of exposure in in citment weather. Singular Climatic Effects. Say a the Denver (Col.) Great West: It is a singular fact that almost every body loses flesh on coming here from the East. The average loss in weight sustained is about one-eighth. For in stance, in the course of two or three months a 200-pound man loses twenty five pounds and becomes a 175-pounder. This is due to the high altitude of Den ver—a mile above the sea to the dry and light atmosphere, to the scarcity of vegi tation and the comparative abundance of oxygen, which consumes the tissues and taxes the vital functions to a greater extent than on lower altitudes. Higher up it is much worse than here. At Lead vrlle, for instance, Which is two miles above the sea level, the diminution in weight does not generally fall short of a sixth or seventh, and it takes place much more rapidly than here. In that high altitude, too, lung diseases, such as pneumonia, very frequently set in, and they prove fatal in about 30 per cent, of the cases attacked. But very tew dogs, except hounds, can live in Leadville, and no cats survive there. In Denver, however, we have a multitude of both dogs and cats, and they appear to ex perience no special difficulty about liv ing and getting fat. Yet it is a noticeable fact that animals and men lose a share of their strength after coming here. After being here two or three months their muscular power is not near so great as in the East. Eight hours of continuous labor does more to exhaust and prostrate a man here than ten hours in Illinois or Wiscousin. And when worn out and prostrated a feeling of las situde and drowsiness that it is very dif ficult to dispel comes over one. In such instances many hours of rest are requi site to rep;iir and rebuild the wasted en ergies. Mental labor is even more ex hausting than physical. A healthy man may do manual labor for eight or ten hours a day and experience therefrom no special evil effects ; but let mental labor be pursued with like assiduity and the nervous system becomes weakened and irritable. In time the physical powers become disordered and weakened by sympathy and by the strain upon them to supply the brain waste. These facts are more predicable of new-comers than of those who have resided for a year or more at high altitudes. Persons and an imals thoroughly acclimated do not ex perience these drawbacks. Indeed, these could not look better anytvhere than they appear here. The great difficulty is in getting acclimated. nail'* Catarrh Care Is a Constitutional cure. Price, 75. Magistrate—“It seems, prisoner, that you took 15 pence from the prose- ] cutor’s till. Now, I put it to you seri ously ; was it worth your while to risk vour character, your liberty, your whole future for such a trifle?” Prisoner— “ Certainly not, your Worship; but I did not know there was not more in the till —I took all there was.” Billiard Table, second-hand. For sale cheap. Apply to or address, H. C. Akin, 511 S. 12th St., Omaha, Neb. By the State Comptroller’s report of 1879, it appears that the colored people of Georgia own 541,199 acres of laud, which is equal to six and one-tenth acres per poll. This is an increase in holding by colored people from 338,769 acres in 1873, and shows a rapid growth in their wealth. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement acd tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. 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Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed,"you will not accept any snbstitute if offered. COOK BOOK %FREE !<% 320 rflGBS—lUsU&TRJITBD. One of the Largest and Best Coos* BOOKS published. Mails* la exchange hr M Largs Lisa bauds cat from Lkm (soiree wrappers, and a teent stamp. I Write far list of oar other line Pro JKScnlSr loLKoof8kio. ] TABERNACLE PULPIT. DR. TALMAGE SAYS THE SAB BATH MUST BE SAVED. It Cane to Ua on the Mayflower and Will Leave Ue on the Ark of Na tional Destruction If We Are Not Vigilant of God's Command. Brooklyn, June 24.—For to-day, Rev. Dr. Talmage has chosen a sub ject of world-wide interest as the theme of his sermon through the press, viz.: the necessity of guarding the Christian Sabbath against inva sions that aim at its destruction. The text selected was Ex. 31:13, “Verily, My Sabbaths Ye Shall Keep.” The wisdom of cessation from hard labor one day out of seven is almost universally acknowledged. The world has found out that it can do less work in seven days than in six, and that the fifty-two days of the year devoted to rest are an addition rather than a sub traction. Experiments have been made in all departments. The great Lord Castlereagh thought he could work his brain three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, but after awhile broke down and committed suicide; and Wilberforce said of him. “Poor Castlereagh! Tnis is the result of the non-observance of the Sabbath!” A celebrated merchant declared: “I should have been a maniac long ago but for the Sabbath.” The nerves, the brain, the muscles, the bones, the entire physical, intellectual and moral nature cry out for the Sabbatic rest What is true of man is, for the most part, true of the brute. Travelers have found out that they come to their places of destination sooner when they let their horses rest by the way on the Sabbath. What is the matter with those forlorn creatures harnessed to some of the city cars? Why do they stumble, and stagger, and fall? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic rest. In other days, when the herdsmen drove their sheep and cattle from the far west down to the seaboard, it was found out by experiment that these herdsmen and drovers who halted over the seventh day got down sooner to the seaboard than those who passed on without the observance of the holy Sabbath. The fishermen off the coast of Newfoundland declare that those men during the year catch the most fish who stop during the Lord’s day. When I asked the Rocky Mountain locomotive engineer why he changed locomotives when it seemed to be a straight route, he said: “VVe have to let the locomotive stop and cool off or the machinery wonld soon break down.” Men who made large quanti ties of salt were told that if they al lowed their kettles to cool over Sun day they would submit themselves to a great deal of damage. The experi ment was made, some observing the Sabbath and some not observing the Sabbath. Those who allowed the fires go down and the kettles to cool once a week were compelled to spend only a few pennies in the way of repairs; while in the case where no Sabbath was observed, many dollars were demanded for repairs. In other words, intelligent man, i dumb beast, and dead machinery cry out for the Lord’s day. But while the attempt to kill the Sab bath by the stroke of axe and flail and yardstick has beautifully failed, it is proposed in our day to drown the Sabbath by flooding it with secular amusements. They would bury it very decently under the wreath of the target conpanv and to the music of all brazen instruments. There are to-day, in the different cities, ten thousand hands and ten thousand pens busy in attempting to cut out the heart of our Christian Sab bath, and leave it a bleeding skeleton of what it once was. The effort is or ganized and tremendous, and unless the friends of Christ and the lovers of good order shall rouse up right speed ily, their sermons and protests will be uttered after the castle is taken. There are cities in the land where the Sabbath has almost perished, and it is becoming a practical question whether we who received a pure Sab bath from the hands of our fathers shall have piety and pluck enough to give to our children the same blessed inheritance. The eternal God helping us, we will! I protest against this invasion of the holy Sabbath, in the first place, be cause it is a war on Divine enactment God says, in Isaiah; “If thou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, thou shalt walk upon the high places.” What did he mean by “doing thy pleasure?” He referred to secular and worldly amusements. A man told me he was never so much frightened as in the midst of an earthquake, when the beasts of the field bellowed in fear, and even the barnyard fowls screamed in terror. Well, it was when the earth was shaking and the sky was all full of fire that God made the announcement: “Remember the Sab bath day to keep it holy.-’ Go through the streets where the theaters are open on a Sabbath night; go up on the steps; enter the boxes of these places of entertainments, and tell me if that is keeping the Sabbath holy. “O,” says some one, "God won’t be displeased with a grand sacred concert.” A gentleman who was present at a “grand sacred con cert” one Sabbath night in one of the theaters of our great cities, said that during the exercises there were comic and sentimental songs, interspersed with coarse jokes; and there were dances, and a farce, and tight rope walking, and a trapeze performance. I suppose it was a holy dan^e and a consecrated tight rope. This is what they call a “grand sacred concert” W’e hear a great deal of talk about "the rights of the people” to have just auch amusements on Sunday as they want to have. I wonder if the Lord has any rights You rule youi family, the governor rules the state, the President rules the whole land; I wonder if the Lord lias a right to rule the nations and make the enactment, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” and if there is any appeal to a higher court from that de cision, and if the men who are warring against the enactment are not guilty of high treason against the maker of heaven and earth. They have in our cities put God on triaL It has been the theaters and the opera houses, plaintiffs, vs. the Lord Al mighty, defendant; the suit has been begun, and who shall come out a_he>i you know. Yi'i her it be popular or unpopular, I now announcet it as mv opinion that the people have no rights save those which the great Jehovah gives them. He has never given the right to man to break his holy Sab bath, and as long as his throne stands, he never will give that right. The prophet asks a question which I can easily answer, "Will a man rob God?” Yes. They robbed him last Sunday night at the theaters and the opera houses, and I charge upon them the infamous and h . u-hand -d larceDy, I hold the same opinion as a sailor I have heard of. The crew had been discharged from the vessel because they would not work while they were in port on the Lord's day. The cap tain went out to get sailors. He found one man and he said to him, “Will you serve me on the Sabbath?” “No.” “Why not?” “Well,” replied the old sailor, “a man who will rob God Al mighty of his Sabbath would rob me of my wages if he got a chance. ” Suppose you were poor, and you came to a dry goods merchant and asked for some cloth for garments, and he should say, “I’ll give you six yards;” and while he was off from the counter binding up the six yards you should go behind the counter and steal one additional yard. That is what every man does when he breaks the Lord’s Sabbath. God gives us six days out of seven, reserving one for himself, and if you will not let him have it, it is mean beyond all compu tation. Again: l am opposed to this dese cration of the Sabbath by secular en tertainments because it is a war on the statutes of most of the states. The law in New York state says: “It shall not be lawful to exhibit,on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, to the public, in any building, garden, grounds, courtroom or other room or place within the city and county of New York, any inter lude, tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, piay, farce, negro minstrelsy, ne-ro or other dancing, or any other enter tainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein, or any equestrian, cir cus, or dramatic performance, or any performance of jugglers, acrobats or rope-dancing.” Was there ever a plainer enactment than that? W'ho made the law? You, who at the ballot boxes decided who should go to Albany and sit in the legislature. You who in any region exercise the right of suffrage. They made the law for you and for your fam ilies. and now I say that any man who attempts to over-ride that law insults you and me and every man who has the right of suffrage. Still further: I protest against the invasion of the Sabbath, because it is a foreign war. Now, if' you hear at this moment the booming of a gun in the harbor, or if a shell from some for eign frigate should drop into your street, would you keep your seats in church? You would want to face the foe and every gun that could be managed would be brought into use, and every ship that could be brought out of the navy yard would swing from her anchorage, and the question would be decided. Y’ou do not want a foreign war, and yet I have to tell you that this invasion of God's holy day is a foreign war. As among our own native-born pop ulation there are two classes—the good and the bad; so it is with the people who come from other shores—there are the law-abiding and the lawless. The former are welcome here The more of them the better we like it. But let not the lawless come from other shores expecting to break down our Sabbath and institute in the place of it a foreign Sabbath. I will make a comparison between the American Sabbath, as some of yon have known it, and the Parisian Sab bath. I speak from observation. On a Sabbath morning I was arroused in Paris by a great sound in the street, I said: “What is this?" “O,” they said, “this is Sunday.” An unusual rettle of vehicles of all sorts. The voices seemed more boisterous than on other davs. People running to and fro, with baskets or bundles, to get to the rail trains or gar dens It seemed as if all the vehicles in Paris, of whatever sort, had turned out for the holiday. The “Champs Elysees” one great mob of pleasure seeking people Balloons flying. Parrots chattering. Footballs rolling. Peddlers hawking their knick-knacks through the streets. Punch and Judy shows in a score of places, each one with a shouting audience. Hand organs, symbals, and every kind of racket, musical and unmusical. When the evening came down, all the theaters were in full blaze of music, and full blaze of light The winestores and saloons were thronged with an unusual number of customers. At even-tide I stood and watched the excursionists coming home, fagged out men, women and children, a gulf stream of fatigue, irritability, and wretchedness; for I think it would take three or four dnys to get over that miserable way of Sundaying. It seemed more like an American Fourth of July than a Christian Sabbath. It is announced that the crisis has passed in Bulgaria, but one crisis shades into another in such a way there that it is pretty hard to telL CUBE ICE A NEW WRINKLE, j '.ompi la All Sizes From a Half Onnre t'p ! Frozen to Order. An ingenious aparatus for the man- ' ufaeture of “cube ice” is an invention . recently exhibited in London. Tho machine is a simple one, in which blocks of pure artificial ice are placed, emerging in the same but stronger shape and possessing some peculiar characteristics. When tap ped with au ice chisel or even a pen knife, they break up into cubes of convenient size, instead of shattering into irregular and ill-assorted lumps. Tho invention is of hygienic impor tance, too, for the machine also stamps plainly on each of the sym metrical cubes the trade-mark of the maker. Thus tho consumer is pro tected by this *‘name-blown-:n-the battle” device, the stamp being a guarantee of tho purity of tho arti cle and its origin. Tho invention has also the virtue of economy, as there is no waste from broken ice and the cubes are symmetrical and attractive. The Lancet thus ex plains the invention: in tne course ol some exDorimenls Mr. Vander Weyde observed that ice at a temperature below freezing point, when newly cut and left in contact, adhered so strongly that it would not break in the same place, whereas when exposed to a warmer temperature it would split at the originally cut places with great ease; and so, with this extended knowledge of the interesting phe nomenon of regelation, first brought to light by Faraday and afterward studied by Tyndall, Mr. Vander Weyde developed his invention as the outcome of its practical applica tion. The phenomenon of regelation is the result of the action of capillary force at the boundaries of the film of water which connects the pieces placed in contact, producing an ef fect equivalent to attraction between them, just as two plates of clean glass with a film of water between them seem to adhere. Ice being wet by water, the boundary of the con necting film is concave, and this con cavity implies a diminution of pres sure in the interior. The film ac cordingly exerts upon the ice a pres sure less than atmosphere, and as the remote sides of the blocks are exposed to atmospheric pressure there is a reluctant force urging them together and producing stress at the small surface of contact. Melting of the ice therefore occurs at the places ot contact and the cold thus evolved freezes at adjacent por tions of the water film, which, being at less than atmospheric pressure, will begin to freeze at a temperature a little above the normal freezing point. It is necessary to allow the block to “warm” for a short time, so that the “cement” of ice loses its previously tenacious hold upon the small cubes into which the block is divided. Then, after this warming up process, the cubes are as easily separated as postage stamps from a perforated sheet. A sixteen-pound block of ice, for instance, can easily be divided into 512 half-ounce cubes, or a thirty-two-pound block into 512 one ounce cubes. * A Singular Story. In a public address delivered in Pittsburg a few days ago, Kev. Dr. Sheldrake, of Kentucky, related these singular stories: “There was a member ot the Kentucky presby tery, whom I knew very well, who frequently went into a sort of walk ing sleep. While in this condition he would preach most eloquent ser mons, but when he came out he could not remember a word that he had said. On one occasion a copy of the French testament was handed to him to conduct family worship at the bouse of a well-known citizen of Frankfort. Although utterly ignorant of the French language, he read a chapter and then commented there on at length in English. On another occasion, while in this condition, he remarked to his friends that a cer tain minister in Nebraska was in trouble, and that he had just written a letter to Kentucky detailing the circumstances. He then proceeded to give the contents of the letter, and his words were taken down by some one present. Two days later the letter arrived from Nebraska, and it was identical, word for word, with the one the minister had dic tated while in the walking sleep.” The speaker cited these instances to show the life of the soul independent of the body, and argued therefrom the immortality of the former. The Diplomatic Corps. An interesting fact not generally known in regard to the diplomatic corps is that a member of that au gust body cannot, under the penalty of official reprimand and danger of recall, appear at a fancy ball in the national court costume. This fact was developed during the past winter when a large fancy ball was given at one of the private houses on the same evening of the presi dential reception to the diplomatic corps. Those of the diplomats who attended the ball later in the even ing were obliged to first change the court costume worn at the White house. Inquiry on the part of curi ous friends developed the reason just stated. The Trait of a Trne Artist. The Theater Manager—I don't see why that eminent baritone singer, Vogelsang, is valued so highly. His voice is no good. The Scenic Artist—Oh. but he has an almira lie faculty for being taken suddenly ill when the management wants to change the bill.—Chicago Record. Frank Pellicer, a cattle man of Cow pen Branch, Fla., claims to have a calf with “two bodies, two heads, four front feet and three hind feet” • — ‘ I Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder Absolutely pure Tramps and Ihelr Signs. Jim Ward, who signs himself “Chief,” writes to the Troy Times: I have just returned to your cif.;, after a tour of exploration down South lasting several months, and reading in your paper an article on tramps and their marks, I desire to be allowed, as an old veteran of that “honorable” body known as “the tramp organization,” to correct a few mistakes. I claim that the tramps were the originators of the mystic marks which have so frequently adorned fences, gate posts and doors, although it is possible that soap agents—mem bers of another branch of the tramp organization—Lave since adopted these marks for business purposes. When tramping was good—and that was some years ago—it was understood by us that all houses where the inmates were good for food, clothing or money were to be marked in order to give us little trou ble when we wanted anything. Where only a meal could be obtained, this fact was indicated by a small square; where a fellow would get the grand bounce an X expressed it, and for clothing he was directed by XX. Money houses were marked $; a house where the inmates were friendly, but the dog unfriendly, was marked by a great big D. But at the present day tramps are not guided by these marks, as there are few houses where tramps are regularly fed. The tramp bore is now played out, but whatever may be said against the tramp it cannot be denied that he has made his marn in this world. The English language is rich m syn onymous terms. A mechanic in search of work Ls “out of a job;” a clerk in the same predicament is “ disengaged,” and a professional man similarly placed is “ at leisure.” The mechanic gets work, the clerk “ connects ” himself with soma establishment, and the professional man “resumes" practice. 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Try Is* A MAN 65 years old has been found in Harrington, Me., who has been out of the State only once, has been on a steamboat only once, and never was in a city until he visited Portland, which he “reckoned wasn’t much of a place for farms.” __ •‘Hannon’* Mug*** Corn Salve.” Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask you# druggist for it. Price 15 cents. The Marquis of Bute intends to erect a Roman Catholic monastery for English monks on his property in Jerusalem, and plans for an oratory have been pre Dared. the building to cost $20,000. Perfectly at Homs. The irrigated lands of Idaho posses* that peculiar qualification which i* perfectly adapted to the raising of apples, apricots, peaches, cherries, pears, plums, grapes, prunes, hops, alfalfa, corn andcpotatoes, which always find a ready market and bring good price. You can’t overstock the United States with these commodities. We'll send our advertising matter on application. E L. Lomax, G. P. & T. A., Omaha, Neb. When President mncoui was assassin ated in 1865, his family being left in needy circumstances, the late Marshall O. Roberts quietly sent Mrs. Lincoln 310,000 as his contribution toward • proposed fund of 3100.000. A Sad Death. A minister was summoned to the bed side of a dying man. The man who lay, gradually obeying the grave summons, gasped and groaned. The minister moved to the bedside and held the hand of the victim. The wife, wild with grief, sank to the floor. “My friend,” said the minister, “you are a man whose prosperous condition in tins life has allowed you much time for devotional exercises. Your dear lit tle children, your wife informs me, are visiting relatives. They will not see their father die. How many children have you ?” “ Thirteen,” gasped the dying man. “I had no idea that you had so many. Poor little ones. Your poor wife looks as though she will die. Judging from your number of children I should think that you had been married more than once. How many wives has the good Lord granted you ?” “Fifteen,” groaned the man. “Surelynot so many,” said the min ister. “ Think of this matter seriously. How many times have you been mar ried?” “Fourteen,” and the victim fell back exhausted. “Are you willing to die?” asked the minister, after a pause. “Move tliree up, six down and eight to the left!” “ Are you prepared to share the glo rious territory of Abraham’s bosom ?” “ Move ten up 1” “ Have you made your peace with your Savior ?” “Simplest thing in the world—move nine down 1” “Take your mind from the confused arithmetic of the world and place it on heaven-’s holy algebra. Are you willing to stand before the great tlirone ?” “ Three.” “Can you go fearlessly?” “Eleven.” “After life’s desperate struggle, what have you accomplished ?” “Thirteen, fifteen, fourteen,” and the man was dead.—Little Lock Gazette. THE VERY THING FOR CHILDREN — jjoctor nerce's Pleasant Pellets. 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Pass, and T. A-, CINCINNATI. DOES IT PAY TO THIS CORN? It has been urged by some that it is best to plant many more kernels than are wanted for a stand, then thinning the corn when of proper size, say six to fourteen inches high, being careful to remove the weaker stalks. In order to compare the resuits of this method with that of planting only so many ker nels as will give the desired number of stalks per acre without thinning, the Ohio university conducted the follow ing experiment: Four-fifths of an acre of land from which the soil had been removed some years previous for mak ing brick, was measured and divided into four equal parts. A strip of uniform width across the plats was laid out, giving an equal amount in each plat- Melilotus or sweet clover was grown on the land the four seasons of 1888 to 1891 inclu sive. The melilotus was not cut, but was allowed to go down each year and re-seed the land. A crop of wheat was cut from this land in 1892. Aside from any effect which the melilotus may have had the land was practically uni form in quality and condition. Two plats were planted at the rate of one grain per foot in the rows. The seed was excellent and almost every grain grew. These plats were not thinned. Two plats were planted at the rate of three grains per foot in the rows, and were thinned to practically the same number of stalks per acre as were then on the plats not thinned. The thin ning was done July 7, just four weeks after planting, and the corn ranged from one to two feet high. The plats which were thinned yielded CG6 pounds of ear corn, while those which were not thinned yielded 812 pounds, a decrease of 14 per cent, due to the thinning. This was an exceptionally dry season. The thinning probably caused more in jury than would ordinarily result. Indisputable. 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