The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, April 24, 1908, Image 2

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Jilled foreigners
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the International
marriages that
have been solemniz
ed recently Is so
largo that point has
been given to the
contention of Ilep
resentative Charles
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to be placed on the
dowries of Ameri
can heiresses win
form unions with
A bill to this effect
was Introduced not long ago by Kepre
senlative Sabath also of Chicago and
in speaking on it Mr McGavin said he
wondered if the pioneers of the coun
try did not turn over in their graves at
the spectacle of so many of the wom
en of this country sacrilicing their
souls and honor on the altar of snob
bery and vice The house at the
time was in committee of the whole
on the stat of the Union and Mr Mc
Gavin thought it was opportune to in
quire into the general tendency to
ward unions Finding that the bill
of Representative Sabath had been re
ferred to the committee on ways and
means because it proposed to levy a
tax Mr McGavin continued
I was curious to know whether the
present tariff schedules Included dukes
earls lords and counts and finding that
these things were nowhere mentioned I
thought that it might be proper for the
customs ofilrer to classify them like frogs
legs or as poultry for it is the general
opinion among Americans that they are
a species of geese
We upon this side of the house have in
recent years referred triumphantly to the
tact that as between this and other nations
the balance of trade was in our favor
but nowhere In the summary can be found
a reference to such trades as these where
3oiled and frayed nobility is exchanged
lor a few million American dollars wrung
Srom the lambs of Wall street with a wo
man thrown In to boot
There was a time when wealthy Amer
icans traveling in Europe were contented
with buyius ostly fabrics and paintings
by old masters of whom they knew noth
ing but now they want something even
more costly but less valuable So when
the wealthy girls traveling with their par
ents abroad see some remnant of royalty
they enthusiastically exclaim Oh mam
aia buy me that An interpreter is ob
tained the bargain is made and the
money is produced and the gill is gone
soon to return a sadder but a wiser one
Mr McGavin was born in IllinoL
thirty four jears ago is a Republican
DIFFERENT IDEAS OF A HERO
Nathan Hale as Portrayed by Two
Noted American Sculptors
A short time ago a committee or
Yale alumni assembled in the studio
af William Ordway Partridge in New
Tork to see the newly completed statue
of Nathan Iiale by that sculptor which
the alumni of the institution propose
to offer for the campus of the univer
sity The patriot spy is the chief hero
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STATUE Or XATHJLN HALE BY irVCirONXIE3
of the famous institution of learning
at New Haven lie had the diploma
of his alma mater with him on that
fateful journey within the enemys
lines on Lonr Island which ended in
his capture by the British and his exe
cution under a warrant by General
Howe on Sept 22 177G Near the
3cene of his execution in City Hall
park New York a statue of Hale by
Frederick MacMonnies now stands
Upon the pedestal are engraved the im
mortal words spoken by him as the
hangmans noose was about to be ad
justed to hs neck I only regret that
I have but one life to give for my
country
Yale men have long felt that there
should be a statue upon the college
grounds of an alumnus who did such
honor to his alma mater hence the
movement resulting in the execution
of this work Mr Partridge has stud
led the subject for ten years and has
written a book about the character of
Hale and the story of his great
Representative Charles McGavin
Who Would Tax International
Marriages Miss Maud
Ashford
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and is serving his second term in con
gress
William P Craig is one of the new
congressmen from the south and is
also one of the youngest members of
the Sixtieth congress Ho was born
in Selina Ala in 3S77 and represents
the fourth Alabama district which In
cludes his native
city lie was edu
cated at the gram
mar schools and
high school of Sel
uia and in 1S9S
graduated from the
law department of
Cumberland uni
versity Lebanon
Tenn lief ore re
ceiving his degree
as a bachelor of
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WILLIAM B CHAIO
several years em
ployed in the shops of the Southern
railway at Selina as a machinist For
the past few years he has practiced law
lie married in 1903 Miss Irene Kunst
of Weston W Va and has served in
the Alabama national guard as pri
vate and noncommissioned officer In
Troop C First cavalry and as captain
of Company C Second infantry
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Miss Maud Ashford who broke off
her engagement to ex Senator Ilenry
Gassaway Davis of West Virginia to
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avoid precipitating a
quarrel in the hit
ters family was at
one time a newspa
per woman She was
a childhood friend
of the daughters of
her former fiance
who is a widower
and while they val
ued her as a friend
it is said they did
not take kindly to
the notion of hav
ing her for a step
mother Senator Da
vis is eighty four and Miss Ashford Is
nearly half a century his junior The
ex senator is a remarkably well pre
served man for his years however
and when he was the Democratic can
didate for vice president in 1104 show
ed that he still possessed much of the
vigor of youth Senator Davis is sup
posed to be worth about o0000000
fice for country Ilis statue presents
an interesting contrast to that of Mac
Monnies Neither had any portrait of
Iiale upon which to work for none
exists They had to be guided by the
descriptions of the hero which have
been handed down and by their own
conceptions of his appearance and ex
pression Each statue has its special
admirers Hale was twenty one at the
time of his cruel death Perhaps he
seems more boyish in the statue by
MacMonnies Partridge has succeeded
well in expressing in the features of
his Iiale the patriotic fervor of the
young enthusiast in the cause of the
new nation and his athletic qualities
The hero was about six feet tall and
could put his hand on a fence as high
as his head and clear it with a bound
The spot on the Yale campus where he
made the famous jump that marked
him as the best all around athlete of
the college was shown for years after
his tiire He is said to have possessed
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STATtTE OF NATHAN HAIiE BT PAKTRIDGE
not only ideal proportions but a grace
and charm which endeared him to all
he met Yale meu are enthusiastic
over the manner in which Mr Par
tridge has met their Ideals in the por
trayal of Hale and over the historic as
well as artistic value of his interpreta
tion in sculpture of the hero
The MacMonnies statue of Hale in
New York was erected in 1S93 by the
Sons of the Revolution and is consid
ered a work of sculpture of the first
rank
ENGLISH RED TAPE
War Office Methods and the Test of a
Mountain Gun
The story that a gun of marvelous
possibilities invented in England may
be sold abroad owing to the apathy of
the powers that be Is not altogether
surprising
Whitworth refused Napoleon IIIs
offer of 0000 a year for life to go to
Paris and manufacture his cannon for
the French army but perhaps our war
office was not so faddy then as now
Some little time ago a new gun for
hill lighting was offered and was sent
out to India to be tried It was drag
ged up steep hills rushed down rocky
defiles left for a week at a time in
mountain torrents in fact submitted
to all the tests which a veteran officer
accustomed to war with the hill tribes
could suggest
The report was satisfactory in every
respect but a war office genius bland
ly asked if the gun had been dropped
down a precipice It had not
The war office was horrified and
amazed at the neglect of so elementary
a test The gun was now dropped down
a precipice with the inevitable result
its internals were irremediably dam
aged
How was it possible the war office
asked to accept such a weapon V And
the army of India was left to potter
along with obsolete weapons because
this new arm would not stand impos
sible tests London Sketch
AWAY BELOW ZERO
The Awful Cold That Comes With
Eirhty Degrees of Frost
It is difficult to form any conception
of the degree of cold represented by 80
degrees of frost that at times prevails
in certain parts of Russia Sir Leopold
McClintock tells us how in one of his
arctic expeditions a sailor was foolish
enough to do some outdoor work at
precisely this temperature nis hands
froze and when he rushed into the
cabin and plunged one of them into a
basin of water so cold was the hand
that the water was instantly converted
into a block of ice
At 2 degrees Dr Kane says the
mustache and underlip form pendu
lous beads of dangling ice Tut out
your tongue and it instantly freezes to
this icy crusting Your chin has a
trick of freezing to your upper jaw by
the happy aid of your beard My eyes
have often been so glued as to show
that even a wink was unsafe
During a theatrical performance giv
en by the crew of his ship at an inside
temperature of SO degrees the con
densation was so excessive that we
could barely see the performers Their
hands steamed When an excited Thes
pian took off his coat it smoked like a
dish of potatoes Any extra vehemence
of delivery was accompanied by vol
umes of smoke Pearsons Weekly
A Wrong Diagnosis
The small boy with the big bundle
of papers was observed to be moisten
ing some of his stock in the street
fountain
Ah my lad said a benevolent old
gentleman it does me good to see
such an illustration of cleanliness
What do yer mean boss asked
the boy as he stared up in wonder
Why arent you trying to wash
the mud spots off the edge of your
papers
No boss you are way off You
see some of dose papers is two weeks
old an if I dampen em up a bit peo
ple will think they are just from do
press an never think of lookin at de
date Good graft old sport Say
some day when I am a captain of in
dustry Ill give you a job
But the benevolent old gentleman
had lied Boston Post
The Order cf St Patrick
The most illustrious Order of St
Patrick dates only from 17S3 says a
London writer when it was founded
by George III and is not to be com
pared in age with the most ancient
and most noble Order of the Thistle
which dating from a remote antiquity
was revived by James II in 1GS7 The
curious thing about the bands or rib
bons of these two orders is that St
Patricks is blue of the hue that may
be seen in the hackles or plumes In
the bearskins of the Irish guards
though it suggests the blue bells of
Scotland while the sash of the thistle
is a dark green suggestive of Erins
verdant isle On state ceremonies
these two orders are frequently con
founded
What She Was Trying to Accomplish
The other morning at the breakfast
table three-year-old Jeannette was pok
ing vigorously with her knife at a bis
cuit
What are you trying to do Jean
nette demanded mother Be careful
you will cut your hand
Said Jeannette Im trying to un
loosen this biscuit its so tight New
York Times
Not a Matter of Choice
Columbia Alumnus That woman on
the debate team is intolerable You
wouldnt like to debate with a woman
would you Cornell Alumnus Got so
I dont mind it now Been married
five years New York Tribune
Hard Lines
Does your wife make you explain
all your acts
Worse than that
Worse than that
Far worse she doesnt permit me to
explain them nouston Post
The Three Periods
Jason There are three periods In a
mans life when he does not under
stand a woman Grayson And they
are Jason Before he knows her
when he knows her and afterward
Al wish the columns 1 of this ivimoi to J
We to use paper
Thank Our Many Customers
1C both old and new for their very liberal Easter patronage and we sincerely hope that the
quality of toe goods we sold you and the courteous treatment shown to each and every one
will make you want to
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THE MODEL The shop of
c a Fisher e d Perkins Shoe Supremacy
xooooooooox
the Easter Lid
My Miiit
Where did she et that hat
Who ever did
Iiuent a lndyb lid
Like Unit
Who had the neno to roll it out
And stretch it more and more
From cei t3rpiece to rim until
It spreads from shore to shore
And likewise lifts its summit up
On birds and other wings
Above the earth until it scrapes
The clouds and other things
Who added to the wondrous width
Of brim so that the space
Could easily accommodate
An automobile race
Say who done that
Who built her hat
Who made it something never seen
On earth or in the sky
A flat of wide extended plain
A mountain towering high
Cut wider doors for her to get
Inside of any place
And put tite ceiling on the roof
To give her nodding space
Push up the clouds to let her stand
Erect upon the ground
And shoe the wide horizon back
To let her turn around
Oh weirdly witching woozy hat
That flattens out and towers
Who over saw a tiling like than
A pancake piled with flower
A hat contagious spreading ies
That names the Merry Wid
And she who fails to catch it should
Slip out and change her lid
Gee whiz
What a wonder woman is
And my scat
Where DID she get that hat
W J Lamptou in New York World
Under Y M C A Control
The East lUcCoolc Sunday school
which owns a small car building on a
lot in that section of town contemplates
placing itself under YMC A control for
legal purposes
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Real Estate Filings
The following renl estate tilings hnvo
been made in tho county clerks ollice
sinco our lastr report
United States to Georgo V
Predmoro pat to n hf nw qr
23 3 0
Farmers Mtg A- Trust Co to
Robert A Morrison wd to o
hf L w hf bw qr 1 1 nw qr
nw qrIot 3 blk 23 lots 123
bile 22 3 28 S21000 00
Mary 13 Knowland ot cons to
Solon E Harvey wd to lot 4
blk 1G 1st McCook 500 00
Masonic Temple Assn to Will
iam A Dolan wd to pt lots
1112 blk 33 Indianoln 200 00
Geo Spahn and wife to Cora 1
Taylor wd to lot Gblk 2 Gth
McCook 1700 00
Jeannette Tartsch and hu3 to
Mary Lehn wd to pt lot 7
lot 8 blk 3 1st McCook 1000 00
Roy Thomas and wife to Gert
rudo Thomas wd to pt nw qr
siv qr 23 w hf sw qr 21 4 2 700 00
S Cordeal and wife to Jean
nette 13 Tartsch wd to lot 7
pt lot S blk 3 1st McCook SOO 00
J V Dolan and wife to James
S Doyle wd to n hf se qr 23
21 42 3000 00
Martha E Gregrey to Arthur P
Sidobottom deed to se qr 33-1-29
3000 00
James A Gregrey to Arthur P
Sidobottom deed to sw qr 33-1-29
3000 00
United States to Allen A Phil
lippi pat to no qr 2 2 29
Fred Ilalbasch to Isaac Kurtz
wd to sw qr 1300 00
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Masonic Temple Assn to Ralph
L Duckworth wd to pt lot
11 blk 33 Indianoln 300 CO
Robert II Nichols and wife to
Henry Horton wd to n hf sw
q r J 1 o
Con Hrening and wifo to Vance
McManigal wd to pt so qr so
700 00
f0 00
United States to Austina
Yanco pat to o hf nw qr o hf
Fred 13 Buck worth and wifo to
Ralph Li Duckworth wd to
lot 10 blk 33lndianola 1800 00
J S Lellew Referee to A G
Rump rof deed to o hf w hf
2 nw qr 1 2 29 3100 00
J S Lellew Roforeo to A G
Rump ref deed to s hf no qr
1 2 2 2 29 2000 00
Widows To Get Increase
Pension Commissioner Warnor has
announced that widows on tho pension
roll would not bo required to mako
application for tho incroaso from S3
to 812 recently authorized by congross
The commissioner has instructed tho
pension agencies throughout tho coun
try to put the law into etlect auto
matically the first payment of tho
increase to be made May 4 This will
result in a saving of several hundred
dollars to tho pensioners affected
Widows not already on tho rolls but
who are entitled to tho incroase wore
required to mako application in tho
past
A Handy Receipt Book
Bound duplicate receipt books three
receipts to the page for sale at The
Tribuxk office
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