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TPMT - TEMPERANCE COLUMN J Conducted by the McCook W C T V PKOGKES9 OF FOUK YKAK3 t the prohibition national convention Stmrles R Jones chnirman of the pro hibition national committee presented a report showing tho progress of the prohibition idea in tho four yenrs from 1IK1 to1908 Tho following statements uro copied from it During the four years the amount of jrohibition territory has been doubled and 20000000 people added to those liv ing in prohibition cities counties and states making an aggregate of over 10000000 now in saloon free districts Nearly two thirds of tho territory of the Waited States and nearly one half of the people are under prohibition protection In 1901 17000000 peoplo in tho south were under prohibition in 1908 25000 BQ0 Thorp are today 250 prohibition cities in the United States having n pop ulation of over 5000 each with a total population of nearly 3000000 In 1904 ibero were scarcely a hundred prohibi tion cities of 5000 or over there are xow 90 prohibition cities of 10000 or over The prohibition party is organ ized and at work in practically every state of the union Since 1904 five new prohibition states have been gained Sow York Sun A farewell reception was held at the ionio of Mrs Viola Austin on Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs Bertha Berry yho with her children loft for her new home at Minneapolis Minnesota Wed aesday evening Tho reception rooms were crowded with tho many friends of Mrs Berry who are sorry to part with her She has been a devoted church worker having practically built up tho JSpworth League by her zeal and untir ing efforts since she came hero nearly four years ago She is also a W O T U worker and will be missed from that organization Many friends were down at the depot to see them off We are rejoicing over the victory of county option at the recent primary -election W C T U Press Sec PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES During the months of June July and August the library has had visitors to the number of 4S74 Books loaned during tho same period 2439 districuted among the classes as follows Philosophy 5 Religion 10 Sociology 7 Philology 1 Natural Sciencej 3 Useful Arts 9 Fine Arts 1 Literature 70 History Biography and Travel 41 Fiction 11SG Juvenile 1100 iotal 2439 A good book is often so adjudged oacause of its worn fringy bedraggled appearance telling eloquently of it use but by no means a safe criterion for sstimating its usefulness Compare the appearance of most of the five dollar bills which come into jour possession with that of the twenty dollar bill which occasionally finds its Tray into your purse You would never place a higher value upon the much Trorn much soiled much circulated five dollar bill because it bears the marks sf greater use Its purchasing power determines its value While it is true hat the five dollar bill passed on four times will purchase twenty dollars Trorth of goods yet no man has received ihe value of twenty dollars from it Carrying the analogy into the world of books A books usefulness or en tertaining power cannot be rightly de termined by its appearance It is quito possible for it to look respectable and ybt contain between its covers a most delectable feast for the reader whose mind is hospitable to its message It is true of books as of bills their value cannot be determined by their circula tion It is true of the feast of books as of the feast of the table we get from them in the measure of the appetite we take tOthem and each reader must make his own discoveries and train his mind to a right estimate of what is good to him What Ten Ears Will Win Advance sheets of the premium list of the Jrtional Corn Exposition which is to be here in Omaha during Decem ber show that a 10 ear sample of corn tvHI win 1000 in gold on the ground oHsaipion sweepstakes award and in ad ditfsa the sample will also win the Grand Premier Commonwealth Trophy valued at 31000 Besides this large aiSount in qualifying for tho sweep stakes and trophy the sample will have soti several hundred dollars in cash and merchandise premiums thus making it fte largest amount ever offered in a grain or grass contest This is certainly niaking money on corn at least 8250 p3 ear and according to Omaha papers iho announcement of such a prize has excited so much wonder among tho basinssa men that many declare their intention of renting a patch of ground next year and if money will buy good seed and give a crop of corn good care jump in after some of the prizes Un til they heard of the prizes which the National Corn Exposition offered they did not think it worth while to play Tvith corn growing but 2500 is more ihaa they win at the horse shows golf tournaments and horse races The Tribune all home print Initial Clerk Carrier Examination Information from tho pobtoftice de partment announces tho initial clerk carrier examination for McCook to be hold on September 2Gth 1908 for which a suitable room in the new high school building has been secured Clerks and carriers in second cluss offices are divided into four grades First grade salary 8000 second grade salary 8800 third grade salary 8900 fourth grade salary 81000 Promotions are mude successively to the higher grades after a years service provided satisfactory service has been given The examination will consist of the subjects mentioned below and weight ed as indicated 1 Spelling twenty words of averago difficulty in common use 10 2 Arithemtic simple tests in addi tion subtraction multiplication and division of whole numbers common and docimal fractions and United States money 20 3 Lottor writing a letter of not lesB than 12o words on some subject of gen ornl interest Competitors will bo per mitted to select one of two subjects given 20 4 Penmanship the handwriting of the competitor in the subject of copying from plain copy will be considered with special reference to the elements of legibility rapidity neatness general appearance etc 20 5 Copying from plain copy a tost in copying accurately a few printed lines in the competitors handwriting 10 G United States geography rela tive to the boundaries of states and to capitals largept cities rivers and other bodies of water and the location by states of prominent cities etc 10 7 Reading addresses test in noting with pen or pencil on a printed sheet of addresses differences between the print ed addresses and the written of which they are copy 10 100 Age limit 18 to 45 The age limit is waived however in the cases of persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness in curred in the line of duty Male applicants must be at least 5 feet and 4 inches high iu bare feet and 125 pounds in weight without overcoat and hat Applicants must be physically sound and in good health Hunchbacks per sons having defective hearing bight or speech persons blind in one eye one- armed one handed or one legged per sons or those having crippled arms or legs or those suffering from asthma or hernia Applicants having above-mentioned physical defects will be rejected unless such persons are honorably dis charged United States soldiers or sail ors For application blanks instructions and further information applications should be made to Edward J Brady at the McCook postoffice or to J M Shoe maker secretary of 8th civil service dis trict St Paul Minn No application will be accepted unless properly executed andjfiled with Mr Shoemaker prior to the hour of closing business on September 22 1908 Real Estate Filings The following real estate filings have been made in the county clerks office since last report Samuel J Pitzgibbons et ux to Paulina Dobson wd to se qr 1 2 28 5000 00 Edward P Daharsh et ux to William Uerling wd to lots IS and 19 blk 23 Indianola pt sw qr ne qr 30-3-29 2 5a C W Snyder et ux to James W Wentz wd to n 50 f of lot 1 blk 1 West McCook pt sw qr ne qr 30-3-29 2 5a hf int 700 00 Anna A Walker et cons to Ed ward H Daharsh wd to lots 2 and 3 blk 17 Indianola 1200 00 William G Flint single and Ivan B Clark et ux to Prank Ball wd to lot 3 blk 3 Cen tral addition to Bartley 1200 00 R E Jennings et ux to C W and H IVI Snyder wd to n 50 f of lot lblk 1 West McCook and 950 00 425 00 Wesley M Rozell to Nels J John son wd to hf int in lots 19 and 20 blk 4 McCook 1250 00 Lincoln Land Co to Con hard wd to lot 8 blk G Mc Cook Conrad Eckhart et ux to Julius Houn wd to lot 8 blk 6 Mc Cook 100 00 225 00 Fred Blair et ux to Margaret V Mecham wd to lots 1 2 3 4 5 G 7 8 9 10 11 12 blk 1 HEsther park add to Bartley 2200 00 J M Little et ux to Wm B Whittaker and C B Gray wd to lots 48 49 50 blk 1 South McCook 825 00 Levi Brown vs Edgar G Brown et al m lien to lots 71 70 1 2 3 4 5 blk 2 Welborns add Indianola L D Vanderhoof et ux to Charles K Dutcher wd to ehf 2100 00 Ernest Pearson to A J Pear son wd to n hf sw qr se qr sw qrnw qr se qr 12000 00 Meda Carney unmd to Clar ence C and Clara H Hariess wd to lot 4 blk 2 4th Mc Cook 100 Clarence C Hariess et ux to Hattie Wait wd to lot 4 blk 24th McCook 950 00 Clara H Hariess et cons to W S Wait wd to lots 12 blk 1 6th McCook 3000 00 DIDNT WEED IT Vhy Scotch Farmer Refused a Por tion of Dessert Could the funny sayings and Inci dents at the tenants dinners In Scot land be collected they would make an unrivaled book of humor Mistakes of amusing and sometimes embarrassing nature occur frequently at such func tions One story Is told of u guest at a Scottish tenants dinner who tasted Ice cream for the first time on that oc casion lie pushed a largo spoonful of the frozen mixture Into his mouth and jumped from his chair with agony ex pressed on his face He let out a yell and cried out Ow ow ma rotten tooth and could not be Induced to eat any more At another Scottish affair of the kind a good old farmer was seated next to the hostess She served him a bit of savory omelet which seemed to cause the old man deep disappointment His Idea of an omelet had always been a dessert with sugar or fruit or jams and after tasting the sample before him he turned to the hostess and said Wool ma lady I canna compliment you on your puddins The late Duke of Buccleuch told a story of a tenant at one of the farmers dinners on his estates who was asked by the duchess if he would take some rhubarb a dish she was fond of The farmer was surprised but answered politely Im muekle obleeged to your grace but I dinna need it FINDINGS NOT KEEPINGS Lost Articles Are Always Crying Out For Their Owners When one is on the public thorough faro or in the street car or train or boat and picks up an object that is valuable is it his True he may find something which is too small and trifling to warrant searching to Cud the owner such as a handkerchief a pair of gloves etc But when he finds something of value it Is not his until he has done every thing in his power to find the owner The street railways and trains are so systematized today that if when one finds an object of value he re turns it to the companys representa tive it is almost sure to catch up with its owner Every person of intelli gence Knows tuat the first place to inquire for it is at the lost and found department When however one is on the street and finds something which if he lost it himself he would very much like to have returned there are the columns of a newspaper in which to advertise If he fails to find the owner after this then he can rightfully call it his own and have a clear conscience but if he avoids looking over the lost and found columns and fails to do his part toward finding the owner he is almost as dishonest as if he took the goods Chicago Record LTerald Serious For Once An army captain on returning homo from India brought with him a goodly stock of souvenirs Among them was a pair of laughing jackasses which he intrusted to one of the sailors Tom Pinch Alas The unaccustomed shipboard life did not agree with the creatures and in spite of all Toms care they pined and Gnally died When he discovered the catastrophe Tom was in despair I darent tell the captain Dont shirk it mate said his pal Break it to him gently Youll find itll be all right The advice seemed sound and Tom sought the gallant captain Scuse me sir he said you know them things below what you call larfln jackasses Well sir they aint got nuffin to larf at this morning London Scraps Kis Choice of Veapons M Victor Noir an illiterate bully of the time of the second empire for no real reason whatever sent a French statesman a challenge to fight a duel Noir was a densely ignorant man and nearly every word in the challenge was misspelled The statesman re sponded with the following letter Dear Sir You have called me out without any good reasons I have therefore the choice of weapons I choose tho spelling book and you are a dead man The duel was never fought Counting It Up There is a son of Erin in Newton Mass who is quite a character He has a number of children and was asked one day how long he had been married Well he said thorps Eu gene is forty and Norah thirty Jive that makes siviuty tivo aud Lizzie is thirty two and how mmv do that make The Visa One Thin liuardtM i tlnu l sec how you managi to fiiv - wHl ai this hoard ing I iiavi Isliistrifiusly funn ed the lai ilalv and all hw daughters but Im half served 1 Boardr I courted tln runk City Itdt pendpm Arrsrmc ts Ccrnplcte Arrangiiiis fr the wedding arc all coiipit Everything artiMidwl rn Yes wi have ovn made a deal with a photographer to have his cam era smashed - Louisville Courier Journal The Cards Are Out Ysobel do you think you learn to love me could Learn to love you Oh Reginald I could give lessons in loving you St Louis Republic Fortune brings In some boats that are not steered Shakespeare ansr MRS PHILIP N MOORE The New President of the General Federation of Womens Clubs Mrs Philip X Moore the new presi dent of the General Federation of Wo mens Clubs was chosen to that office as successor to Mrs Sarah Piatt Deck er at the recent ninth biennial session of the federation In Boston Mrs Moore defeated Mrs May Allen Ward of Boston the candidate named by the nominating committee r 1 MRS PHILIP 2f MOORE 51G of the 90U votes cast She was vice president of the General Fed eration and is prominent iu society and musical circles in St Louis Mrs Mooro was one of the most active members of the board of lady mana gers of the Louisiana Purchase expo sition of 1904 Edgar Jepson Edgar Jepson author of Tangled Wedlock is a writer of the day whose youthful experiences have undoubtedly helped him in the art of the romancer In a little tin pot of a steam yacht he and two of his college friends in or der to see the world coasted along the shores of the Mediterranean and in six months had as many narrow es capes from drowning as the average seaman enjoys in thirty years Then came a year as schoolmaster in a prim itive Welsh village and after that three years in the West Indies from all of which quite naturally was ac cumulated enough experience for the demands of romance Queer Virginia Oysters Cut sure enough did you know there were some oysters and Virginia oys ters at that which cannot live alwavs under sheets of water The seaside say over ten feet and the most and best of them grow in water so shoal that it is dry ebb half the time These latter are the most prolific seed bear ers we have but they will die if planted in deep water or in the Chesa peake bay The inside or bay oyster should never ebb bare to thrive best Singular isnt it that the Virginia oysters one and the same bivalves can lead a double life but only one phase of it at a time The seaside fellow must be out of water a good portion of his time to thrive while the bay and river fellow will die in sum mer and freeze in winter if exposed to the air Virginia Citizen The Roast To judge woman by her looks is to court error said a well known wo man I know a man who while carving at a dinner wished to say something that would please the pale deep eyed spirituelle girl at his side How do you like Maeterlinck he at last inquired Well done she answered not once lifting her eyes from the great roast he was working on Washington Post A Difficult Case A physician received late one even ing a note from three of his fellow practitioners Please step over to the club and join us at a rubber of whist Emille dear he said to his wife here I am called away again It ap pears to be a difficult case there are three other doctors on the spot al ready New I want you said the stage man ager to play the part of a banker and I wint you to try to play it with a touch of originality All right responded Vorlek Ilamm Ill leave ulT tho mutton chap whisk ers Kausii Tity JorrurJ Could vrii Iiri ycrcrsolf to live in a Cat on 4 a wet- I could narold answered the pain pored yet unspoiled irig But I d not know j u h r it wtuld suit m French maid rc i Taier The RcM Question Where dies he ret hi money I dont know wIkmv hi rois his mid I dont care Wli u I ni iMer tsted in is knwig ji t how he gets tnine Nashville Anic rican The Sea Serpent Myth It is possible even probable that the sea serpent myth started in all good faith In the southern seas grow the gigantic algae the largest of which measure from 400 to GOO feet in length These when rolled on the beach form enormous cables several hundred feet long and as thick as a good sized tree trunk Such cables washed out to sea by storms may very easily have given rise to the farfamed but yet undiscov ered sea serpent New York Ameri can -4 - 5i WHAT IS A DAY You Probably Think It Is Twenty four Hours but It Isnt Nine persons out of tun yes 099 out of every 1000 if asked how long it takes the earth to turn once on Its axis would auswer twenty four hours and to the question How many times does It turn on Its axis in the course of the year the answer would be 3G5Vi times Both answers are wrong It requires but twenty three hours and fifty six minutes for the earth to make one complete turn and it makes 3GGV1 turns during the year The er ror springs from a wrong Idea of what fs meant by a day The day is not as Is commonly sup posed the time required by the earth to make one turn on Its axis but the interval between two successive pas sages of the sun across the meridian that Is to say the time which elapses after the sun Is seen exactly south In its diurnal course through the heavens before it is again seen In that position Now in consequence of the earths revolution in its orbit or path round the sun the sun has the appearance of moving very slowly In the heavens In a direction from east to west At noon tomorrow the sun will be a short distance to the east of the point in the heavens at which it is seen at noon today so that when the earth has made one complete turn it will still have to turn four minutes longer be fore the sun can again be seen exactly south THE ANCIENT SPARTANS They Flogged Men Who Grew Too Fat For Military Service Among the ancient Spartans every thing was considered secondary to mil itary efficiency and with a view to se curing this the boys and men were by law kept in a continual state of train ing No deformed child was allowed to live Boys were taken from their homes and subjected to military regu lations at the age of seven They were compelled to wear the sauic single gar ment winter and summer At twenty they joined the ranks and from that age till they reached sixty were re quired to dine at the public tables where only a certain quantity was sup plied for each man The magistrates interfered in absurdly small matters They regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful for any citizen to extend his body Those who dared to grow too fat or too soft for military service and exer cise were sometimes soundly flogged Aelian in his history relates that Nauclis son of Polytus was brought before the ephors magistrates and the whole assembly of Sparta and his un lawful fatness was publicly exposed TJTL Tter I ireou SiSTpSSS banishment if he did not bring his body within the regular Spartan com pass and give up tho culpable mode of living -which was declared to be more worthy of an Ionian than a Spartan Clock and Watch Freaks A watch isnt exactly dirty when it requires cleaning saj s a watchmaker It may need cleaning when it hasnt even been worn A common cause of this is that the oil in the works has dried up and be come sticky causing the watch to go slow or even to stop In this case it not only -wants cleaning but also the addition of fresh oil The best oil for this purpose is ob tained from the jawbone of a porpoise or kindred fish Many watchmakers mix their own oil from various kinds Clocks also stop for no apparent reason During a thunderstorm for instance a clock may stop only resum ing work when minutes days or even weeks have passed Thunderstorms again have been re sponsible for the restarting of old clocks which have apparently retired altogether from active service Lon don Answers Brides and Wet Weather A Breton bride rather likes to have a wet wedding It is held to signify that all her tears are now shed and that she will therefore have a happy mar ried life know of no similar belief in the British isles The Erza of Simbirsk call the day before the wedding the weeping day and the bride and her girl friends weep all they can with the idea it would seem of getting the mourning of life over so that only joy may remain The Badagas of the Neilgherries at tain the same end by sousing the bride with water Some Greek tribes have a similar belief in the virtue of a drenching bringing good fortune The Omnipresent Rose Every continent on the globe with the exception of Australia produces wild roses There can be little doubt that the rose is one of the oldest flow ers in the world perhaps grown from the wind blown seeds iu paradise In Egypt it Is depicted on numbers of early bas reliefs dating from 000 to CoOO B C Ilosewater or the essence of roses is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad and the flower is spoken of in the Froverbs of Solomon Cholly Truthful Cholly have you ever loved be- fore My dear girl 1 will be honest with you I have been engaged so many times that my ex fiancees have per fected an organization and adopted a yell St Paul Pioneer Press Must Have Been a Prize But how could you tell darling that I had never proposed to anv other girl Because you were not married Bhe murmured rapturously and admir ingly Judge YOU WOULD DO WELL TO EJwE933l7Z2 l33B USJM m TI pUJ uggf BUCEBEES BULBS SUCCEED W SPECIAL OFFEE teifgfr iladoto build New JJusIness A jwrr toEt r Satisfaction guaranteed or your Fjsf money retunded SEE J M RupP FOR ALLKINDSOFgpjck WOflC P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska A Zigar Hawkins Phono Red 193 H H Evans Thono Red 20 HAWKINS EVANS Contractors and Builders Plans drown and estimates furn ished on application McCook Nebraskn E F OSBORN Drayman Prompt Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices GIVE ME A TRIAL Office First Door South of DeGrofPs Phone 13 F D BURGESS Plumber and Steam Fitter Iron Lead and 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