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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1908)
z MMWNVWVVftVASAN i TEMPERANCE COLUMN Conducted by the McCook W C T U iWltfMw WyWWWMWVAMWAWA ijA 8bBrffe33xsi3i 5 fy AIIUAHAM LINCOLN ON IKOIIIBITION Tbo liquor trailic i a cancer in society gating out its vitals and threatening de struction und alj attempts to regulate it will not only prove abortive but aggra T9thQ evil If the prohibition of slavery is good Jbr the black -man the prohibition of 2e liquor traffic is equally good and constitutional for the white man 3iere must be no more attempta to sagulate the cancer liquor traffic it aaust be eradicated for until this be dbno all classes must continue exposed to become the victims of strong drink 3ha most effectual remedy would be be passage of a law altogether abolish ing the liquor traffic After reconstruction the nest great ouestion will be the overthrow of the Equor traffic April 13 18GH Law must protect and conserve right things and if there is any evil jn the 5nd that threatens society or indivi ctoals more than another it is tho liq sor traffic 1853 Under the license system the saloons multiply drunkards At the last meeting of the WCTU Sptember 14th the following officers wre elected for the coming year Mrs M J Stevens president Mrs Whner vice president Mrs C Mc 3ride recording secretary Mrs H A Souch treasurer 3he ladies of our union have under taken to supply the city of McCook sejtb a drinking fountain Contribu tions will be gladly received from any sho may desire to aid in this cause W C T U Press Sec CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Christian Bible school at 10 a m teaching at 11 a m and 8 p m C E a5 7 p m All are welcome R M Ainsworth Pastor Episcopal Preaching services at St Aibans church at 11 a m and 730 p 38u Sunday school at 10 a m All 3ra welcome to these services E R Earle Rector StsHOLic Order of services Mass Jhs m Mass and sermon 1000 a m Srening service at 8 oclock Sunday soaool 230 p m Every Sunday Wm J Kirwin O M I Baptist Sunday school at 10 a m Preaching service at 1100 a m Even ing service at S00 B Y P U at 7 p m A most cordial invitation is extended to ail to worship with us E Burton Pastor Christian Science Services Sun Say at 11 a m and Wednesday at 8 p 3 Meetings held in the Morris block 22oom open all the time Science litera ture on sale Subject for next Sunday Substance Methodist Sunday school at 10 a m JE53cbing at 11 and 8 Labor Day ser 3oa Epworth League at 7 Prayer meeting Wednesday night at 8 A cordial welcome to all M B Carman Pastor Evangelical Lutheran Regular German preaching services in the court room of the McCook court house every Sunday morning at 1030 All Germans xnd Russians cordially invited Rev Wm Brueggeman 307 5th st East Congregational Sunday school at ISVa m Preaching at 11 am and 8 pm lay pastor Junior C E at 3 p m Senior C E at 7 p m Prayer meet lag Wednesday evening at eight oclock 22sa public is cordially invited to these 3jTices G B Hawkes Pastor EPWORTH LEAGUE NOTES Miss Ethel Glandon departed last Saturday for Lincoln Neb where she r31 visit friends for a week and then go on to Chicago to enter the Chicago f fsaining School for a two years course Zsx Christian work Miss Ethel has Seen a great church and Epworth Lea- se worker here and will be greatly xaissed but she felt the call to a wider Ssld and goes to prepare for it A fare 3E11 reception and shower was given by Sut league in her honor Miss Glandon possesses a genial and beautiful Christ ina character and a host of friends bid exxSed speed Mh 35 E Culbertson will lead Ep wjth league at the M E church Sun fey night the 13th at 7 oclock sharp S9 subject is The Christians Path tFano All are cordially invited A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Itching Blind Bleeding or Protrud ing Piles Druggists refund money if 5520 Ointment fails to cure any case no matter of how long standing in 6tol4 sja First application gives ease and last 50c If your drueeist hasnt it S2d52c in stamps and it will be for jjtarded postpaid by Paris Medicine Co E6 Louis Mo Bought the Pastime Ifcsfr Saturday W H Harmon closed Sa deal for the purchase of the Pastime fSeatre in the Fahrenbruch building on ISestB street The Pastime was few weeks since by Mrs Linnie of Sheridan Wyoming and man- ssjsd by H O Woodbeck J immMmmtitiijMtftffiglli0a9tmffgm PRIMARY ELECTION SEPT 1 1908 Following We Give the Official Totals of the Votes Cast Last Week Below and following we give tho re sult in totals of tho primary election held in Red Willow county September 1 1903 FOR PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CON STITUTION WITH REFERENCE TO THE INVESTMENT OF THE PERMA NENT PCHOOL FUND Republican 389 Democrat 152 Peoples Independent G Prohibition 7 Socialist 5 AGAINST PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION WITH REFERENCE TO THE INVESTMENT OF THE PER MANENT SCHOOL FUND Republican 48 Democrat 37 Peoples Independent 3 Prohibition 0 Socialist 4 FOR PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CON STITUTION RELATING TO JUDI CIAL POWERS Republican 335 Democrat 137 Peoples Independent 5 Prohibition 5 Socialist 4 AGAINST PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO JU DICIAL POWERS Republican 55 Democrat 44 Peoples Independent 2 Prohibition 1 Socialist 5 ELECTORS AT LARGE Bell R 691 Langer R 578 Gering D 252 Harrington D 231 Smith D 108 Gering P 1 9 Harrington P 1 10 Potts P I 5 Harrington P X Potts P 1 Batton Soc 20 Phillips Soc 20 ELECTORS FIFTH DISTRICT Luce R 712 Swanson D 314 Swanson P 1 10 Lafferton Pro 4 Nichol Pro 4 Legler Soc 22 GOVERNOR Sheldon R 823 Shallenberger D 252 Dahlman D 24 Berge D 72 Berge P 1 4 Shallenberger P 1 8 Teeter Pro 9 Harbaugh Soc 13 Walker Soc 7 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Hopewell R 724 Garrett D 152 Grimson T 53 Tibbetts D 121 Linch Pro 10 Jorgenson Soc 16 Rodgers Soc 4 secretary of state Junkin R 710 Gatewood D 242 Mattes Jr D 82 Gatewood P 1 9 Wcltt6Sj Jr jr A o Hockenberger Pro 7 Aberly Soc 21 auditor k Idea R 192 Allen R 78 Antles R 27 Barton R 262 Haynes R 32 McKesson R 43 Pierce R 53 Luikart D 153 Price D 177 Luikart PI 8 STATE TREASURER BrianR 707 Mackev D 315 MackeyP1 12 SUPT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Bishop R 420 Carrington R 118 Delzell R 95 Martin R 80 Abbott D 29S Abbott PI 12 Schell Soc 19 ATTORNEY GENERAL Thompson R 690 Fleharty D Ill Quackenbush D 91 Terry D 116 Fleharty PI 3 Quackenbush PI 4 Terry PI 5 Tracey Soc 15 Nye Soc 4 LAND COMMISSIONER Cowles R 392 Husenetter R 63 Sams R 54 Shively R 192 Eastham D 231 iYl Q U U 6 1 f XJ Idb JIjHSluIiI jtX y Manuel PI 3 Thompson Pro S RAILWAY COMMISSIONER Aarons xv J00 aDDOuv XV - ii Hedlund R 168 Karr R 105 Van Wagenen R 5 Wallace R 76 Williams R 175 Brophy D 79 CowgiP D 244 xiropny xrx tt Cowgill Pl 7 Finkenkeller Soc 19 CONGRESSMAN FJFTH DISTRICT NorrisR 797 Ash ton D o2 isnton xrx o Larkey Soc 18 STATE SENATOR TWENTY NINTH DISTRICT Cordeal R 516 Gammill R 314 Hasty R 50 Matthews D 166 Sheridan D 158 Sheridan PI 6 Matthews PI 1 Wicks Soc 6 REPRESENTATIVE SIXTY FIFTH DISTRICT Moore R 460 Pennington R v 398 Hoppe D 174 LehnD 154 Hoppe PI 3 Simonsen Soc 7 Falden Soc 3 COUNTY ATTORNEY Reeder R 511 Smith R 38G Dodge D 267 COUNTY SURVEYOR Kelley R 692 Barber D 8 COUNTY COMMISSIONER Gockley R 26 Lofton R 123 Miller R 50 Morgan R 106 ReedD 25 RED WILLOW FIRST THIS TIME Added a First This Year to the Second Prize Carried Off Last Year It will be more than gratifying news to the people of Red Wiilow county to learn that the county exhibit made last week at the state fair in Lincoln so cured and was awarded the first prize in county exhibits in the Western section of the state the state being divided into sections in this contest It will be remembered that Red Wil low was awarded the second prize last year when it was attached to the Cet tral section in the separation This year as last the exhibit was prepared by Messrs Stephen Holies and William Hiersekorn and to these gentlemen is due the credit for both prizes and for an exhibition prepared and arranged in such an artistic and harmonious scheme as to call for favor able comment from both the Lincoln Journal and the Omaha Bee We congratulate both of the gentle men and Red Willow county at the same time VOODOO DOCTORS Belief of Negroes In Their Ability to Work Spells A well educated and clever negro in Philadelphia related with obvious sin cerity an experience of his own with a famous voodoo doctor of that city who had grown rich from his wiz ardry Once a person had a writ out against me this negro said The constable had it The magistrate was set against me I went and got a charm from the doctor I met my enemy but I was not seen I met the constable and he walked by and never noticed me The magistrate did what he had never done before for got all about it The voodoo stopped it all This same negro related another in cident of his experience Once I was nearly killed by a voo doo black cat which used to come into the house I threw a stick and hit it It was a witch It tormented me I was ridden in dreams like a horse I suffered terribly I was dying I went to the voodoo doctor I paid him 5 for a spell That night I awoke The window was open the moon was shin ing I saw the little black witch hov ering up and down there She was smaller than in her own body She wore a very big old fashioned bonnet Her face was like that of the cat But she did not come any closer to - me Then she faded away That ended it The belief is prevalent among the negroes that witches have power to as sume the forms of various animals In South Carolina a means employed to guard against such visitations is to scatter rice or similar small grains thickly over the floor in the form of a cross Before the witch can approach her victim she must devour every grain This task is too tedious for her patience and she takes herself off Marvin Dana iu Metropolitan Maga zine The Silver Rabbit There is a kind of rabbit which atiounds in Lincolnshire England and is called the silver rabbit Its fur is of a delicate silvery gray Although it is little prized in England its skins are shipped in enormous numbers to different parts of Asia especially Tar tary and China where the fur is con sidered the fittest thing for monarchs to wear Only the richest can afford it there so heavy is the price de manded Tho Daring Pike The boldness of a pike is very ex traordinary I have seen one follow a bait within a foot of the spot where I have been standing and the head keeper of Richmond park assured me that he was once washing his hand at the side of a boat in the great pond in that park when a pike made a dart at it and he had but just time to with draw it A gentleman now residing in Wey bridge in Surrey informed me that walking one day by the side of tho river Wey near that town he saw a large pike in a shallow creek TJe im mediately pulled off his coat tucked up his shirt sleeves and went into the water to intercept the return of the fish to the river and to endeavor to throw it upon the bank by getting his hands under it During this attempt the pike find ing he could not make his escape seized one of the arms of the gentle man and lacerated it so much that the wound took a month to heal London Fishing Gazette The Eastern Question Paw have you ever been east Yes I spent a year in New York city when I was considerably younger than I am now Well what is the eastern ques tion The only one I ever heard was How much is he worth Chicago Tribune MYSTERY OF THOUGHT Try to Concentrate Your Mind on Ono Theme For Five Minutes A St Louis physician who has given much nttentlon to the study of mental disease in Us various phases though as he snys himself not enough to qual ify as nu alienist has a curious theory with regard to concentration of thought on any particular subject His idea Is that no human can so fix his mind on any special topic us to avoid even for a moment the errant thoughts that come and go not only without our volition but in spite of our most earnest efforts at mental ap plication He goes so far as to muintaiu that nobody but a monomaniac can think of one subject continuously for five minutes and even believes that the ability to do so is one evidence of something wrong in the upper story I once heard the subject discussed by a party of Intelligent men and one of the number was so confident of his ability to think of one subject an in definite length of time that he roused his opponents to the point of making a test If you can repeat the Lords Prayer and then declare upon your word of honor that you have not thought of anything else while doing it Ill make you a present of a horse and saddle and bridle The confident one took up the chal lenge and iu order to fix his mind requested the company to keep still un til he got through Then with frown ing brows and tightly drawn face he began aloud and went slowly and ap parently with the most determined at tention straight through the prayer After he said amen and opened his eyes he was asked how he had got along with his task Its a failure gentlemen I didnt get to the end of hallowed be thy name before I wondered what kind of a horse it was going to be and before I reached thy will be done I thought about black saddles and white saddles and about the horse again then of the bridle and the rein whether they would be of light or dark leather then of old Pete a horse my father had and how he threw me over his keadevben I switched him with a lo cust thorn branch then of a mare that kicked old Pete in the ribs while they were in the pasture together and left the imprint of both shoes on his side and before I reached ameu I thought of a drove of wild horses that used to be out on tho plains and what a pile of money a man would make by round ing them all up and selling them for farm horses I did think I could fix my mind on one thing for awhile but when I tried my brains seemed to scatter like an old fashioned shotgun St Louis Globe Democrat An Eccentric Will In the year 173G a gentleman living in England named Samuel Baldwyn died after a somewhat unhappy mar ried life By his will Mr Baldwyn left his property to his young wife on the condition that she should from time to time dance upon his grave The motive for this strange request was evident when the instructions for his interment were read Mr Baldwyn desired that his remains should be tak en by boat to the Needles and then cast in the sea This singular wish enabled him to revenge himself on his wife for past disagreements and the widow lost the property as she could not fulfill the conditions of her hus bands bequest The Word Ogre Old fashioned etymologists used to say that the word ogre commemorat ed the sufferings of Europe during the ninth and tenth centuries at the hands of the ravaging Oigours or Uuns This derivation however is now aban doned Ogre which reached the French language by way of Italian and Spanish is really Orcus the Latin hell afterward the god of the underworld In Romanesque folklore this god be came a shaggy black man devouring monster with a particular taste for lost babes in the wood One View of the Kiss The olfactory kiss is Mongolian The nutritive affair is European The Mon golian kiss is with the nose The Eu ropean kiss is with the mouth The Mongolian kiss indicates that the party rnifud would be an agree able prey The European variety indi cates that i lie party embraced would make a doki tablc nifal They art but Jhi different forms of the same of preservation the give and fic o wild beasts Ex change Art cf tho Cjpcrizr Cmilr The supiri a us vfisl accoai pisIiiKMt fur any yoig man li much in vii- t xw iKiiviriiii where it mv 1 stud it irs Uvi u young nothin LJsi i yy oh at rin unn uiiitrsstlis IpIi fi this art and fil it iirisniy pspfi in after life t is an srHhsit iv r for a nakl mind and should hi sn icit after by parliamentary candidates Oxford Varrity Fleering Papa Five-year-old Tommy was hohrx prt through a test in numbers before the admiring family one day at dinner Finally papa asked him the question that had proved the Waterloo of the older children in past years Now Tommy said papa how many are two apples and three pears Five fruits promptly answered Tommy Delineator We exaggerate misfortune and hap piness alike We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say vre are Balzac r SEA BATHING The Effects of Salt Air and Water on tbe Human Body There Is a reason why parents havo in nil times nnd Iu all ages endeavored to give their children the benefit of sea air and sea bathing An Italian physi cian Gerosa tells ahout it It Is agroed he says that all living organisms began their first existence in salt water nnd that as a result the hu man body and indeed every animal body is largely made up of salt If you taste your blood or your tears which are the extract of blood you will find that both are quite salt in flavor More than this however every living being possesses within his body in the cellular stage all those strange marine organisms which we study so curiously in museums And seeing says Gerosa that the amount of sea water contained In every body Is equal to one third of that bodys weight it is clear that in the lnfiniteslmally rudi mentary form all known marino life must be present In the blood The re sult is that when we bathe in the sea or breathe the sea air we replace the amount of essential salt which is con stantly decreasing In the system and all unconsciously to ourselves weak ening it Salt water says Gerosa Is really the main principle of life since it is the first condition of existence which the living organisms knew It is therefore always good for the body whether it be enjoyed at the seaside or brought in bottles from the sea In particular Is It very valuable in the case of weakling children and there is no bodily stimulant so Invigorating to tho very young as sea water THE VOODOO IN HAITI Human Sacrifices to tho Gcd cf the Serpent There is ample proof that human be ings have been offered as sacrifices to the god of the serpent in Haiti A French archbishop of the island de scribes a visit made by one of the priests to a voodoo assembly The man had disguised himself as a negro and he was thus able to mingle unde tected with the crowd in the obscurity outside the sacred circle After the white cock and white goat had been slain and offered up and their blood had been sprinkled on the company a burly young negro came forward and prostrated himself before the priestess Then still kneeling he made his prayer O maman I have a favor to ask of thee What is it my son said the negress encouragingly Wilt thou not give us to complete the sacrifice the goat without horns The priestess gave a sign of assent The crowd roundabout separated and there was revealed a child sitting with Its feet bound The French priest rushed away in search of assistance in preventing the unholy rite but the authorities on whom he called were strangely slothful When finally on the day following they arrived at the place of assembly they found the grewsome remains of a sacrifice and a feast among them the boiled skull of the child Marvin Dana in Metropoli tan Magazine When Men Hurry Singular said a man waiting for a train on an elevated railroad platform and looking down a street to where a hundred men and boys had gathered around two wagons that had come to gether iu collision there are a hun dred men standing around those two wagons just standing tUere gawping apparently with nothing else to do and not in a bit of a hurry but let any one of those men come up the stairs to this platform when there is a train coming in and hed rush and hurry and tear himself apart to catch that train and get glum if he missed it though he knew very well that thered be an other train here in a minute Let him miss a train by a second and he thinks the world is coming to an end let him see somebody hoisting a safe up the outside of a building and he will stop and waste half an hour now do you account for that New York Sun Mms dc Struves Wit Secretary Elaine had said of Mme de Struve that she was the brightest woman he had ever met and every body who knew her agreed with this verdict Her knowledge of English was remarkable even for a Russian and her sallies were famous For in stance the day when Secretary Bay ard was made head of the American diplomatic service his daughter Miss Kate Bayard said laughingly to a young secretary oC legation Remem ber I am now daughter of your chief 1 to which came quick as a flash the retort from Mme de Struves lips Oh we all know that you are miss chief Army and Navy Life His Terms Varied I give a little reception next Thurs day evening and I should like some music piano solos particularly What would be your terms Thus a lady to a professional instrumentalist Eef I go zere simply as a musician was the reply und blay my selections und leave I gharge fife guineas but eef I must go as a guest und spend ze whole evenings talking to von pack of fools I gharge den guineas--London Graphic A Sure Thing She Did father say anything about you being too young He Well yes but he said Id age pretty rapidly after we were married and I found I had to pay your bills Illustrated Bits A happiness that Is quite undis turbed becomes tiresome we must have ups and downs Moliere V you would do well to see J M RupP FOR ALL KINDS OF gf jJ WOrfc P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska A Edgar Hawkins Phouo KeU liu GIVE ME A TRIAL r H H Evans Phoue Bed 2t HAWKINS EVANS Contractors and Builders Plans drawn and estimates furn ished on application McCook Nebraska E F OSBORN Drayman Prompt Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices Office First Door South of DeGrofPs Phone 13 isorNWSSNa F D BURGESS Plumber and Steam Fitter Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings Estimates Furnished Free Base ment of the Postoffice Building McCOOK NEBRASKA SEND 25 CENTS i BftUEJialft to -ore petU b6 puUat and ncelia tUa t1uU collection f tlulb lotplld togelhir with raj bll IUoltnUd lnitruetlr IKtuiu ui cri uuu iuu im 1MWK AVUJ ftU fcDOtlE tfi Ut vtTieura o ncui vuiDa ua iriur In Conunetn oration of coatlnaoat neeMtfol tran 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