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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1900)
eo CQ 9H 9S 9 9 9n © There are few women as beautiful - tiful as they might be. Powder and paint and cosmetics don't H e make good looks. Beauty is H ® simply an impossibility without health. Beautiful women are B H few because healthy women are few. The to have fair B way a 9 face and a well-rounded figure 9H is to take This is that old and time-tried medicine that cures all female H troubles and weaknesses and f drains. It makes no difference what the doctors call the trou ble , if thera is anything the matter in the distinctly feminine organs , Sradfieltrs Fe * a male Regulator will help w and cure it. It is good for ir H regular or painful menstruation ; for leucorrhcea , for falling of the womb , for nervousness , head ache , backache and dizziness. Take it and get well. Then your old-time girlish features H and figure will be restored. 9 9m Sold by druggists forgt a bottle. 8B3 THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. & ATLAHTA , GA. CALIPSO 6989. Will make the season of 1900 at my barn in McCook , Nebraska. Cabpso is a beautiful black horse weighing about 1,600 pounds. Entered in the French stud book as No. 6989 , Vol. 6. He was foaled March 10 , 1890 , and imported Aug. 20,1892 , by Springer and Willard. \ SIRE : Maachard 7084 ; he by Leduc 7969 , * she by Monton. Leduc 7969 by Introuvable out of Mellarie. DAM : Rosette 18009.sne by Hercule 2602 , by Vigoureux , out of Margot ; she by Jean Bart 716 , by Bayard. Vigoureux by Jean Bart 716 , by Bayard. TERMS : $10.00 to insure mare with foal. Care will be taken to prevent accidents , but 1 will not be responsible should any occur. J. S. McBRAYER , Owner. DANDY LEER. Will make the season of 1900 at my barn in McCook , Nebraska. Dandy Leer was bred by J. M. Leer of Paris , Kentucky. Is a black jack with white points , seven years old , fifteen hands high , very blocky and heavy boned , and has fine style and action. As a breeder he has no equal in Nebraska , his mules being in dark colors black and bay with heavy bones , great style and good quality. TERMS : Siooo to insure mare with foal. Care will be taken to prevent accidents , but will not be responsible should any occur. J. S. McBRAYER , Owner. H. P. SUTTON JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS MCCOOK , NEBRASKA Kojdol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. Itartificiallydigeststbefoodand aids Kature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered digest- ant and tonic. Ifo other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia , Indigestion , Heartburn , Flatulence , Sour Stomach , Nausea , SickHeadacheGastralgiaJCrampsand all other results of imperfectdigestion. Prepared by E. C. DsV/itt & Co. , Chicago. D. "W. LOAR , Druggist. McCook Transfer Line J. H.JWYER , Proprietor. 3rDSp6cial attention paid to hauling furniture. Leave orders at either lumber yard. DON'T BE FOOLED ! Take the genuine , original ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA Made only by Madison Medi cine Co. , Madison , Wi5. It keeps you well. Our trade mark cut on each package. Price , 35 cents. Never sold in bulk. Accept no substi- tutc. Ask your druggist. By REV. CHARLES M. SHELDON , * o Author of "In His Steps : What Would Jesus DoP" "Malcom # < > * * , Kirk , " "Bobert Hardy's Seven Days , " Etc. f * + * 1 * * * f JS03 , by Tlie Advance Publl&Mno Co. * + * * + clnlrcTi , liis "contact"wlflFfiTc "Workmen , bis evident influence over them , the thought of what they would feel In case he left Milton to accept this new work , the dissatisfaction at the thought of an unaccomplished work abandoned , the thought of the exulta tion of the whisky men all this and much more surged In and out of his inind and heart like heavy tides oC a heaving ocean as it rushes into sonic deep flsssre and then flows back again with noise ajsd power. He strug gled up into a sitting position and with pain of body almost fell from the couch upon his knees and with his face bowed upon the letter , which he spread out before him with both hands , he sobbed out a yearning cry to his Master for light in his darkness. It came as he kneeled down , and it did not seem to him at all strange or absurd that as he kneeled there came to his thought a picture of the Brother Man. And he could almost hear the Brother Man say : "Your work is in Milton , in Calvary church yet. Except a man shall renounce all that he hath he cannot be his disciple. " It mat tered not to Philip that the answer to his prayer came in this particular way. lie was not superstitious or morbid or given to yielding to impulse or fancy. He lay down upon the couch again and knew in his heart that he was at peace with God and his own conscience In deciding to stay with Calvary church and refuse the call to Fairview. CHAPTER XVIII. When a few minutes later Mrs. Strong came up , Philip told her ex actly how he had decided. "I cannot leave tbese poor fellows in the tenements yet. My work is just beginning to count with them. And the church oh , Sarah , I love it , for it has such possibilities , and it must yield in time. And then the whisky men I cannot bear to have them think me beaten , driven out , defeated. And in addition to all the rest I have a feeling that God has a wonderful blessing in store for me and the church very soon , and I cannot banish the feeling that if I accept the call to Fairview I should always be haunted by that ghost of -Duty murdered and run away from which would make me unhappy in all my future work. Dear little woman , " Philip went on as he drew his wife's head down and kissed her tenderly , while tears of disappointment fell from liCr _ Httle woman , you know you are the dearest of all earthly beings to me. And my soul tells me the reason you loved me enough to share earth's troubles with me was that you knew I could not be a coward in the face of my duty , my conscience and my God. Is it not so ? " The answer came in a sob of mingled anguish and happiness : "Yes , Philip , but it was only for your sake I wanted you to leave this work. It is killing you. Yet" and she lifted her head , with a smile through all the tears "yet , Philip , 'whither thou goest I will go , and where thou lodgest I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people ple and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die , and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and ' " me. There were people in Milton who could not understand how a person of such refined and even naturally expen sive and luxurious habits as the minis ter's wife possessed could endure the life he had planned for himself and his idea of Christian living in general. Philip could have told them if he had been so minded. And this scene could have revealed it to any one who knew the minister and his wife as they really were. That was a sacred scene to hus band and wife , something that belong ed to them , one of those things which the world did not know and had no business to know. When the first Sunday of another month had come , Mr. Strong felt quite well again. A rumor of his call to Fairview had gone out , and to the few intimate friends who asked him about it he did not deny , but he said little. The time was precious to him. He plunged into the work with an enthu siasm and a purpose which sprang from his knowledge that he was at last really gaining some influence in the tenement district. The condition of affairs in that neigh borhood was growing worse instead of better. The amount of vice , drunken ness , crime and brutality made his sen sitive heart quiver a hundred times a day as he went liis way through it all. His study of the whole question led him to the conviction that one of the great needs of the place was a new home life for the people. The tene ments were owned and rented by men of wealth and influence. Many of these men were in the church. Dis couraged as he had so often been in his endeavor to get the moneyed men of the congregation to consecrate their property to Christian uses , Philip came up to that first Sunday with a new phase of the same great subject which pressed so hard for utterance that he could not keep it back. As he faced the church this morning he faced an audience composed of very conflicting elements. Representatives of labor were conspicuous in the gal leries. People whom he had assisted at one time and auother-Acere .scattered through tiie house , mostly in tne oacic seats under the choir gallery. Ills OAVH membership was represented by men who , while opposed to his Idea of the Christian life and his Interpretation of Christ , nevertheless continued to go and hear him preach. The incident of the sexton's application for member ship and his rejection by vote had also told somewhat in favor of the minister. Many preachers would have resigned after such a scene. He had said his say about it and then refused to speaker or be interviewed by the papers on the subject. What it cost him in suffering was liis own secret. But this morning , as lie rose to give liis message in the person of Christ , the thought of the continued suffering and shame and degradation in the tenement district , the thought of the great wealth in the possession of the church which might be used almost to transform the lives of thousands of people if the men of riohps innlvarv rhnrrh would onlx" see the kingdom of God in its demands on them this voiced his cry to the people and gave his sermon the signifi cance and solemnity of a prophet's in spiration. "See ! " he exclaimed ns he went on after drawing a vivid picture of the miserable condition of life in the buildings which could not be called homes , "see what a change could be wrought by the use of a few thousand dollars down there. And here this morning in this house men are sitting who own very many of those tene ments , who are getting the rent from them every month , who could , without suffering one single sorrow , without depriving themselves of one necessity or even luxury of life , so change the surroundings of these people that they would enjoy the physical life God gave them and be able to see his love In the lives of his disciples. Oh , my brethren , is not this your opportunity V What is money compared with human ity V What is the meaning of our discipleship - cipleship unless we are using what God has given us to build up his king dom ? The money represented by this church could rebuild the entire tene ment district. The men who own these buildings" lie paused as if he had suddenly become aware that he might be saying an unwise thing. Then , after a brief hesitation , as if he had satisfied his own doubt , he repeated : "The men who own these tenements and members of other churches be sides Calvary are among the owners- are guilty in the sight of God for al lowing human beings made in his im age to grow up in such horrible sur roundings when it is in the power of money to stop it. Therefore they shall receive greater condemnation at the last , when Christ sits on the throne of the universe to judge the world. For will he not say , as he said long years ago , ' 1 was an hungered and ye gave me no meat , naked and ye clothed me not , sick and in miserable dwellings reeking with filth and disease and ye drew the hire of these places and vis ited me not ? ' For are these men and women and children not our brethren1 ; Verily God will require it at our hands , oh , men of Milton , if , having the power to use God's property so as to make the world happier and better , we refuse to do so and go our ways careless of our responsibility and self ish in our use of God's money. " Philip closed hisesermon with an ac count of facts concerning the condition of some of the people lie himself had visited. When the service closed , more than one property owner went away secretly enraged at the minister's bold and , as most of them said and thought , "impertinent meddling in their busi ness. " Was he wise ? And yet he had been to more than one of these men in private with the same message. Did he not have the right to speak in pub lic ? Did not Christ do so ? Would he not do so if he were here on earth again ? And Philip , seeing the great need , seeing the mighty power of mon ey , seeing the indifference of these men to the whole matter , seeing their de termination to conduct their business for the gain of it without regard to the condition of life , with his heart sore and bis soul indignant at the suffering he had witnessed , came into the church and flung his sword of wrath out of its scabbard , smiting at the very thing dearest of all things to thousands of church members today the money , the property , the gain of acquisition and he smote perhaps with a somewhat un wise energy of denunciation , yet with his heart crying out for wisdom with every blow he struck , "Would Christ say it ? Would he say it ? " And his sensitive , keenly suffering spirit beard the answer , "Yes , I believe he would. " Back of that answer he did not go in those days so rapidly drawing to their tremendous close. He bowed tbe soul of him to bis Master and said , "Thy -will be done ! " Tbe week following this Sunday was one of tbe busiest Philip had known. With the approach of warmer weather , a great deal of sickness came on. He was going early and late on errands of mercy to the poor souls all about his own house. Tbe people knew him now and loved him. He comforted his spir it with that knowledge as be prayed and worked. He was going through one of the nar row courts one night on his way home , with his head bent down and his tliatioUtc. oa snmn. Pf cnc..of. snffprincr when lie was suddenly Confronted by a young man wlio stepped quickly out from u shadowed corner , threw one arm about Philip's neck and placed bis other hand over his mouth and at tempted to throw him over backward. It was very late , and there was no one In sight. Philip said to himself , "This Is the attack of which 1 was warned. " He was taken altogether by surprise ; but , being active and self pos sessed , he sharply threw himself for ward , repelling his assailant's attack , and succeeded in pulling the man's hand away from his mouth. Ills first second's instinct was to cry out for help ; his next was to keep still. He suddenly felt the other giving way. The strength seemed to be leaving him. Philip , calling up some of his knowl edge of wrestling gained while in col lege , threw his entire weight upon him. and , to liis surprise , the man offered no resistance. They botli fell heavily up on the ground , the man underneath. He iiad not spoken , and no one had yet appeared. As the man lay there motion less I'hilip rose and stood over him. Liy the dim light that partly illumi nated the court from a street lamp farther on he saw that his assailant was stunned. There was a pump not far away. Philip went over and brought some water. After a few mo ments the man recovered conscious ness , lie sat up and looked about in a confused manner. Philip stood near by , looking at him thoughtfully. CHAPTER XIX. -As the man looked up at Philip in a dazed and uncertain manner Pulllp said slowly : "You're not hurt badly , I hope. Why did you attack meV" The man seemed too bewildered to answer. Philip leaned over and put one arm about him to help him rise. He struggled to his feet and almost instantly sat down on the curb at the side of the road , holding his head be tween his hands. For a moment Phil ip hesitated. Then he sat down beside him and , after finding out that he was not seriously hurt , succeeded in draw ing him into a conversation which grew more and more remarkable as it went on. As lie thought back upon it afterward Philip was unable to ac count exactly for the way in which the confidence between him and his assail ant had been brought about. The inci dent and all that ( lowed out of it had such a bearing on the crucifixion that it belongs to the whole story. "Then you say. " went on Philip after they had been talking briefly in ques- "Iliad aivlfe. She's dead of consump tion. " tion and answered for a few minutes "you say that you meant to rob me , taking me for another man ? " "Yes. I thought you was the mill man. What is his name ? Winter ? " "Why did you want to rob him ? " The man looked up and said hoarse ly , almost savagely , "Because he has money , and I was hungry. " "How long have you been hungry ? . " " 1 have not had anything to eat for almost three days. " "There is food to be had at the poor commissioners' . Did you know that fact ? " The man did not answer , and Philip asked him again. The reply came in a tone of bitter emphasis that made the minister start : "Yes ; I knew it ! 1 would starve be fore 1 would go to the poor commis sioners for food. " "Or steal ? " asked Philip gently. "Yes , or steal. Wouldn't you ? " Philip stared out into the darkness of the court and answered honestly , "I don't know. " There was a short pause. Then he asked : "Can't you get work ? " It was a hopeless question to put tea a man in a town of over 2,000 idle men. The answer was what he knew it would be : "Work ! Can I pick up a bushel of gold in the street out there ? Can a man get work where there ain't any ? " "What have you been doing ? " "I was fireman at the Lake mills. Good job ; lost it when they closed down last winter. " "What have you been doing since ? " "Anything I could get. " "Are you a married man ? " The question affected the other strangely. He trembled all over , put his head between his knees , and out of his heart's anguish flowed the words : "I had a wife. She's dead of con sumption. I had a little girl. She's dead too. Thank God ! " exclaimed the man , with a change from a sob to a curse. "Thank God ! And curses on all rich men who had it in their power to prevent the hell on earth for other people , and which they will feel for themselves in the other world ! " Philip did not say anything for some time. What could any man say to an other at once under such circum stances ? Finally he said : "What will you do with money if I give you some ? " "I don't wantor.our monejul' .replied BARGAINS IN. . . . SUMMER UNDER : WEAR. . . . Ladies' Vests from 50 to 450. Men's Summer Underwear , 250 per garment and upward. Regular 500 grades we sell at 390. Call and see them. They are real bargains. THESE BLAZING DAY A Parasol is an absolute necessity these blazing hot days. Nowhere will you find a bet ter assortment than we have at prices that are very reasonable. We start them at 350. We have some special low prices on groceries. Call and be convinced. THE . . . . . C. L. DeGROFF & CO. ± j i //a/m/a/v % , ' n n i ? /vxvxw * * I , < NATIONAL s * coo Authorized Capital , $100,000. Capital and Surplus , $60,000 \ OOO GEO. HOCKNELL , President. B. HI. FREES , V. Pres. W. F. LAWSON , Cashier. F. A. PEN NELL , Ass't Cash. . } A. CAMPBELL , Director. FRANK HARRIS , Director. f a Glorious News Comes from Dr.D.B.Cargile of WashitaJ.T. lie writes : "Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula , which had caused her great suffering for years. Terrible sores would break out on her head and face , and the best doctors could give her no help ; but now her health is excellent. ' ' Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It's the supreme remedy for eczema , salt rheum , tetter , ulcers , boils and running sores. It stimulates liver , kidneys and bowels , expels poisons , helps digestion - gestion , builds up the strength. OnlyfOc. Sold j by McConnell & Berrydruggists. Guaranteed. There's no beauty in all the land , That can with her face compare. Her lips are red , her eyes are bright , .She takes Rocky Mountain Tea at night. Ask your druggist. God neither asks for more than we can do nor expects less than the most. Mothers who would keep their children in good health should watch for the first Symp lens of worms and remove them with White's Cream Vermifuge. Price. 25c. A. McMillen. The Chinese ask "how is your liver ? " in stead of "how do you do ? " for when the liver is active the health is good. De\Vitt's Little Early Risers are famous little pills for the liver and bowels. The greatest mistake in life is seeking to improve the circumstances without regard to the character. To save mending , avoid breaking , and to avoid suffering , prevent coughs and colds by the timely use of Ballard's Horehound Syrup. It is a safe , sure and swift remedy for all bronchial ailments. 25 and 5cc. McMillen. All who suffer from piles will be glad to learn that De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve will give them instant and permanent relief. It will cure eczema and all skin diseases. Be ware of counterfeits. Chinese towns should be much easier to capture than Boer or Filipino cities , as hardly any of them are words of more than two syl lables. PROSPECT PARK. Roy Barnes i * in Beaver City at pie-ent. Clifford Dunham ! txpectei eon from Kansas. 'Ihe farmers in tin.- section arc happy orcr the improved crop prospects. The exercises by the children vrere well at tended and interesting throughout. The ice-cream party at John Sly's was well attended , and all had a pleasant time. W. S. Whedon , cashier of the First National bank \Vinterset , Jowa , in a recent letter gives some experience with a carpenter in his employ that will be of value to other mechan ics. He says : " 1 had a carpenter working for me who was obliged to stop v.ork for several days on account of being troubled with diar rhoea. I mentioned to him that I had been similarly troubled and that Chamberlain's Colic , Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy bad cured me. He bought a bottle of it from the druggist here and informed me that one ilosc cured him and he is again at his work , " For sale by McConnell & Berry , Druggists. Ivy poisoning , poison wounds , and all otacr accidental injuries may be quickly cured by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel halve. It is also a certain cure for piles and skin diseases. Take no other. D. W. Loar. Expansion is popular in Cuba whichbonjjlit $600,000 worth of beer from us the past ten months. To Cure La Grippe in Two Days.S Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it faite : o cure. E. W. Grove's name on every bottle. 2 c. 4-1. Reports show that over fifteen hundred lives have been saved through the use of One Minute Cough Cure. Most of these -were cases of grippe , croup , asthma , whoopmc cough , bronchitis and pneumonia. It3 earJy use prevents consumption. D. W. Loar. bmall in size and great in results are De- Witt's Little Early Risers , the famous HttJe pills that cleanse the liver and bowels. They do not gripe. D. W. Loar.