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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1908)
J iVi i w rh V The Politicians Some of the Men Who Arc Seeking the Suffrages of Their Fellow Citizens Spell binders and Campaigners f yfftTv SENATOR C A CULBERSON chairman of the Democratic advisory campaign commit tee Is recognized aB one of the ablest men in the upper branch of congress and he Is a son of David B Culberson who was a member of the house from ciiaiues a Texas for twenty iiiison two consecutive years and one of the greatest lawyers the south ever produced Senator Culberson too Is noted for his deep knowledge of the law While yet a verj young man lie appeared in the supreme court of the United States and argued the celebrated case of Le Grande versus the United States in volving the constitutionality of the Ku klux act Ills speech on that occasion was a legal triumph and the court de cided the case in his clients favor In 1800 at the age of thirty live he was elected attorney general of Texas succeeding the redoubtable James Ilogg and two years later he was re elected It was while lie was attorney general that he again appeared before the supreme bench at Washington and argued the case of IJeagan versus the Farmers Loan and Trust company in volving the constitutionality of the act creating the lexas railroad commis sion When he had concluded his ar gument and was preparing to leave tthe room the clerk of the court beckon ed to him and upon going to the desk lie there found Mr Justice Gray who warmly congratulated him upon Ids able presentation of the case This was praise from Sir Hubert and a Sir Hubert not lavish of praise Some years subsequently when he made another exceptionally strong plea be fore that bench Justice Gray again sent for him and said Young man I have watched your career and am not unmindful of the fact that the people of Texas have teen care that you should not go unrewarded Nothing used to annoy the late Grover Cleveland so much when he was president as to have reporters fol low him on his fishing expeditions and become inquisitive as to his luck Probably it did not add much to Judge Tafts enjoyment of his recent trip to Middle Bass island Lake Erie to be pursued so closely by correspondents and photographers but being a candi date he had to don his customary r z JVVCaUk - SW vVv O f VKfcA Sy ssrvsrt -T - 2 Ai jgss o s r i jS S2 f sessaf 3 IX V COPYRJGhr JCTCSiH Kta cov v rssxXt MSSiS I i8S8WhJB2 m JUDGE TAFT AS FISHEKUAN smile and make the best of the situa tion Somehow the fish do not bite very well when there is a camera nearby ready to click every time a piscatorial prize is pulled in at the end of the line Judge Taft is getting used to camera clicks and to being attended by an army of correspondents on ev ery occasion but the bass is a wary member of the finny tribe and the Re publican standard bearer after trying his luck for a short time and giving the camera man a chance to secure a nega tive or two decided to postpone fishing until after the vote catching had been duly attended to William Hayward who succeeds El mer Dover as secretary of the Repub lican national committee has the dis tinction of being the youngest judge and the youngest brigadier general in his native state of Nebraska and the youngest chairman of a state party or ganization in the country He has been chairman of the Republican state central committee of Nebraska for two years but resigns to give his entire time to his new duties as secretary of the na 3 S v- - tional committee K He looks more than his thirty one years yk i WILLIAM HAY WARD as he is six feet two inches tall of fine figure and mature appearance He was born In Nebraska City and has been a member of the bar there since his graduation Irom the University of Ne braska In 1501 Ills father the late M L Hayward was elected to the United Slaics senate from Nebraska in 1002 and died on the day he was to take his scut The new secretary of the Republican national committee Is known as the fa ther of the Nebraska system a sys tem which from the state organization reaches successively down through well organized district county precinct and neighborhood organizations By an elaborate system of reports the state chairman thus keeps In closest touch with the work of every party organiza tion in ids commonwealth This sys tem naturally attracted Chairman Hitchcock and he has asked Mr nay ward to instruct the other state chair men In the method Mr Hayward will have charge of the partys Chicago headquarters while the Republican general himself is in the saddle Simeon S Pennewill Republican nominee for governor of Delaware Is a brother of Judge James Pennewill of the Delaware supreme court and was formerly one of the Addicks leaders in Sussex county While a member of the state senate he led the break from Ad dicks which result ed in the elimination of tile noted gas magnate as a factor in Delaware poli tics Mr Pennewill is forty years of age and has an exten sive f a r in near Greenwood Mr tennewill is run- ning on a platform y iisix x f mnf lAfztX 8iaVM mmm lItl lnlifno V ZSZ3r3Pi kfuiii wvjiho tot Ksmif strict enforcement s S pnXXEWILL of laws against bri bery for improvement of waterways and extension and protection of the oyster and fish industry Congressman W Bourko Cockran who is one of the leading spellbinders for the Democratic ticket this cam paign has a wide reputation for wit He was talking once about labor trou bles and said I was born in Ireland and in Ire land I obtained a part of my education I remember well the school I attended J54 -5 and I remember well a schobl fellow of mine named Mi chael a lad who was always talking about trouble and f always looking for it We are on the question of trouble now and therefore in Michaels experi ence it may be that there is something to profit us Michael boasted constantly that the master was afraid w B cockkax t0 flog him yThy Oh because his father had said that if a hand was ever laid upon the boy there would be trouble But one day Michael misbehaved and the flogging due was not long in coming The boy went home indescribably enraged He sought out his father Father he said didnt you say that if the schoolmaster ever licked me there would be trouble I did the father answered Well I was licked today and only for throwing paper pellets about the room The father frowned I never fail my son to keep a promise he said There is going to be trouble Fetch the strap Congressman Wesley L Jones of the state of Washington a candidate at the primaries for the seat of Senator Levi Ankeny is serving his fifth term in the house of - representatives He 1 was born near Beth- m C any 111 in 1SG3 and was graduated from the Southern Illinois college at Enfield He is a lawyer has a wife and two chil dren and his home is at North Yakima Congressman Jones js rtS esifa had to work hard in v fs maicing ins way anct if- has never been over- - - stocked with this worlds goods When wesley l joxes he first ran for congress his political opponents pictured him as a clod hopper The contest has been a picturesque political struggle in progress since the state was admitted to the Union nine teen years ago On admission Levi Ankeny became a candidate for the United States senate John Lockwood Wilson kept Ankeny out until 1903 Wilson a poor man became the first representative in congress from Wash ington Ankeny opposed him In 1S95 Wilson went after the ofiice himself and got it defeating Ankeny but only for a four year term In 1S99 Ankeny defeated Wilson for re-election but Wilson was able to name his successor in Addison G Foster Final ly in 1903 Ankeny reached the senate Personally he is not politically am bitious but his wife a daughter of the late Senator James Nesmith of Ore gon an intimate of Abraham Lincoln was a Washington society belle in the civil war period and has urged him ever on to political battle Mr Wilson who is a brother of Henry Wilson United States minister to Belgium is managing owner of the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the whole influence of that newspaper has been thrown against Ankeny BREACH OF PROMISE Manner In Which the Law Trcato It In Different Countries England is the best place from tiie plaintiffs point of view for a breach of promise action All other coun tries beem to regard with grave sus picion any attempt to recover mone tary compensation for the loss of a prospective husband and unless the piaintilT has a very strong case indeed It is never worth her while to carry her grief into the law courts In France breach of promise cases are rare for the simple reas on that the law requires the plaintiff to prove that she has suffered pecuniary loss Now tills is not an easy tiling to do cm the part of the lady especially in a co u nt it where a girl without a dot that is a marriage portion has a poor chance of finding a husband noiland and Austria have adopted the French system and the result has been about the same Breach of promise actions are rare the injured damsels or their lelatives usually taking the law into their own hands Practical German as might be ex pected has perhaps the best method for solving this problem When a young couple become engaged they have to go through a public betrothal ceremony that ought to knock all the shyness out of them In the local town hall the pair declare their affec tion willingness to marry etc ending by signing a collection of documents that apparently leave no loophole for escape But if either party to the con tract wishes to withdraw another jour ney is undertaken to the town hall and another collection of documents signed witnessed and sealed Then the authorities determine the question of compensation should it be claimed In this connection it may be said that the mm can and often does claim a solatium for his wounded feelings The usual award is one fifth of the marriage dowry It is easy to under stand when all this is remembered how loath the young people of Ger many are to break their betrothal oaths As the law of Italy affords little or no protection whatever to jilted dam sels or swains it Is not surprising that the stiletto should be the favorite mode of deciding breach of promise eases The Italian law demands that the per son suing for the breach shal produce a written promise to marry from the defendant otherwise the action cannot proceed This dilliculty is almost in surmountable and the Italian judges are seldom troubled to adjudicate be tween one time lovers To bring an action for breach of promise of mariage against a reigning monarch is an achievement but it has been done and by an English lady Miss Jenny Mighell sued the sultan of Joiiore and as there was a doubt whether the dusky one was actually a reigning monarch the case was allowed to come into court but the judge quick ly disposed of the action by ruling it inadmissible for the reason referred to and Miss Mighell was nonsuited It is remarkable that one of the two actions which have brought verdicts for 10000 each to the plaintiffs should have had for its defendant the editor of a matrimonial paper The second case was between a well known actress and the eldest son of an earl London Tit Bits Tune For Tune Frederick the Great made generous presents to all musicians except flute players He played the flute remark ably well himself A famous flutist once asked permission to play to the king hoping that Frederick would show his appreciation of his skill by some valuable gift Frederick listened attentively while he played a difficult piece You play very well he said and I will give you a proof of my satisfaction So saying he left the room The mu sician waited guessing at the probable nature of the proof Presently the king returned with his own 1ute and played the same piece Then he bade his visitor Good day s irg I h ive had the pleasure of hsariis u and it was only fair that you ud hear me Beyond His Aid A woman who had a telepir v ia her apartment called r tho teiepi cna pany and asked tJuit the I ais continued The man t ir mes sage tried to he cviviiacy piite We are sorry to - yo he said Are you dissutisilid with auyihkgV I am said thp woman emphatic ally I am vey sorry isu the man Perh ps wo can help jon Vhat is it you do not ISfccV Single blessedness s iiJ the woiii an I a m gnSnif to le man ied tomor row Ail said the palitc clerk you past our ai2 Gooly New York A Knctly Problem It no un sai the young man with heavy timired vigses fI cant get this political economy stvaicht - Whats the trouble asked the pro fessor I cant discover whether a lot of people go broke because we have hard times or whether we have hard times because a lot of people go broke Kansas City Independent A Painful Dilemma Willie Whats a dilemma Johnny Well its when you cant sit down because your dad licked you for going swimming and you cant stand up because a crab bit your toe Illus trated Bits It Is said that the average man can get along with 300 words but unfor tunately she generally hands him more than that Puck nance ev Choice Presented Gotham Playgoers Who Would Be Up to Date His Satanic Maj esty In Two Places at Once O the dance or to The Devil which or both That is the kind of quotion New Yorkers put up to themselves this au tumn With seductive Salomes on jvery hand and two devils plaUng to crowded houses every nigiit one might uippose Gothams Great White Way o lead in quite an opposite direction from the straight and narrow way we ead about in Holy Writ Judging by die amount of noise made over the ar rival of his Satanic majesty in New fork this autumn one would Infer that he had never been there before ind had never heard the name or seen he lights of Broadway This of ourse is beyond belief but at any rate it is the first time the evil one aas come to Gotham undisguised as he heroof a drama heralded in ilmu Jig posters and making no secret of lis intention to capture the town Ow ng to his traditionally ubiquitous haracter it is quite easy for the devil o appear in two places at the sains inie but the human vehicles of his personality are two in number and veil known in the theatrical world George Arliss and Edwin Stevens Both play English versions of the Iratna by Ferenc Molnar named in lonor of the presiding genius of the jifernal regions Mr Stevens devil jiay be seen at the Garden theater and Mr Arliss interpretation of his Satanic majesty may be witnessed at Belascos Did you hear the merry widow was oing to sue the devil is the latest n Broadway When the one ques ioncd replies in the negative he is old that the merry widow thinks she ought to collect damages from tho levil for alienating the affections of the public The gay little lady who lias now had a hat named for her was lbout the wannest thing on the pike ast season but the devil ha been making it hot not only for her but jven for the numerous daughters of ty y jF lYXS ytIv ra t vAjf Jr 1p i x AjuuwWMUWUIXilvirnv inn inn- ii ii i Anf nJ i Mfllwi gpvx v wl iit dfaf - - 1 3EORGE ARLISS AS TilE DEVIL AND MSB GltACH ELIiISTOX AS OLGA Herodias who have been producing Visions of Salome at roof gardens music halls and various other places where amusement is dispensed Strange o say the women seem to be the most mxious to see the devil Special performances are given for the fair sex and at Saturday matinees it takes big details of police to handle the crush of feminine humanity at the box offices Abroad they took Moinars play rath er too seriousl Americans with their love of humor can more easily see the fun of the comedy The work is full af cynicisms like the following The Devil If you ladies would go on fibbing nicely then we would understand iou occasionally The Devil Consider how stupid it would be if every one told the truth Why hered be no conversation The Devil She does not love her hus oand Her nusband therefore is either a very common fellow or a genius Tho amoved husband is always the one or the Dther The Devil The artist should never mar ry The wife swears to be at your side jntil her ding daj but pretty soon she steps in front of you The Devil You are right not the true woman There is however only one true woman the other fellows wife There has been a lot of discussion about this appearance of the devil whether the manifestation is good for he morals or otherwise As usual the Joctors disagree but the actors any way believe that they should make ike part as attractive as possible Mr irliss who with Miss Grace Elliston in the leading female role imperson ates the devil in the performance at he Belasco theater gives his ideas of he part thus I am quite sure that the devil to be really the monopolist of his line of Dusinpss would be the best story teller n his club the best dancer in his set He would play the piano like a virtu so win the tennis and golf champion ships handle the ribbons like a thor ughbred In short he would have all he graces and all the charms that taen commend and women adore nHBaBSaKi A COURSE OF OX Try It as an Antidote For tho Ills of the Strenuous Life In tho choice of motor power allow me to suggest the x The horse leans forward to pull and evtin helps himself aloug by bobbing Ids head He jerks- a load out of a hard place by piuugiuz bodily against the collar stopping and lunging again He strains through a hard place and then starts suddenly forwaid at his release He works into a lather and you if you are the right kind of person cannot help feeling for him and assisting him ith in ward stress and strain The ox does not bob a horn lie sini ply journeys and the load goes along When he comes to a tough place pasterns do not bend down he does not squat to pull he does not pinch along on the toes of his shoes he seldom blows and he does not know how to sweat He tloes not exert himself at a patch of woven soil and then hurry tip when lie is past It The chain becomes stlffcr and the yoke sits solider to his neck and that is all There is no sign of effort The earth may grit its teeth and crunch s It swallows the plow but the ok stalks on his way With the share deep or shallow or lifted entirely and hanging from the axle whether he is plowing earth or air it makes no difference to him His most ponderous task Is still himself and he heeds no Incidentals He Is out for a stroll He does not allow work to interfere with the even tenor of his way His tendons are rin ged to his outstanding rump bones like so much spar and tackle and he goes along by interior leverage Inside his old woman hulk is the necessary en gine work and he will neither go slow er for this thing nor faster for that There is much about him besides his disposition that is self contained lie is the antithesis of the automobile Tj ride on his back is a cure for indige tion to ride behind him is a rest f the mind A course of ox is an antidu for the ills of the times Charles D Stewart in Atlantic A BRIER PIPE Get One That is Smooth Inside the Bowl Says a Smoker A collegian who prides himself on the sweetness and color of his brier wood pipes and pretends to know a lot more about them than any ordinary smoker spent half an hour in a tobacco shop making an addition to his already large collection Some pipes he discarded because of the grain in the wood There was too much stripe or too much birdseye he remarked When he found one which suited him he put it aside until he had gathered three or four which appar ently were all right and then came his final test to pick out the best of them all He held each with the bowl toward the light then slowly rubbed his little finger inside Two he discarded then repeated the operation with the othe until only one remained out of the dis card That one he bought Want em smooth inside he ex plained A brier pipe roughly fin ished inside the bowl isnt worth both ering with I wouldnt take one for a gift wouldnt take the trouble to try to break it in for it will never be any good It wont cake up right and itll never be nice and sweet Ive got a theory that when the in side of the bowl is rough all the little edges and points of wood char and burn tho first time you smoke it and a burnt pipe is no good Thats why I always take a pipe that lias a bowl as smooth on the inside as on the out Then it doesnt char but cakes up evenly and gets good in a little time Maybe the theory is wrong but it has worked out well in my own experience and some of my friends who have tried it agree with me New York Sun One Industry of the Pesky Ant Out in Burmi and the far east where sandalwood is worth its weight in sil ver the pestiferous ant is a valuable assistant to the loggers of that precious timber The hard and fragrant heart wood alone hay value but as the tree grows this valuable heart is overlaid by a soft and worthless layer forming two thirds of the trunk When a tree is felled and cut into lengths the log gers let the timber lie At once the ants begin work upon the soft wood which is sappy and sweet enough to attract them In a few weeks less than a month in the case of the largest butts the ants deli er the lieartwood free of all the worthless sapwood Explaining Aha MoscI What are you doing with those chickens Is dem yo chickens boss 1011 got them out of my coop What kinda chickens is dey boss They are Rhode Island Reds What are you doing with them Why boss I done bought some Rhode Island Reds fm a man yestiddy an I come ovah to git some o yo alls chickens to see ef mine was lak yo alls Ah doesnt lak tu git cheated boss Houston Post Tricking the Hens Chinamen have a way of tricking hens so that they assist in the hatching of fish Fish eggs are carefully placed in an eggshell which is then sealed and placed under an unsuspecting hen In a few days the spawn is warmed into life and the contents of the shell are then cast into a shallow pool where the sunshine completes the work Saw It Theres been a conflagration here Bald Cumso looking at a tall building How do you know asked Fangle I saw tho fire escape Kansas City Independent ANSWERS EVEKY CALL flcCook Icoplc Have Found that This is True A cold a strain n sudden wrench A little causo mny hurt tho kidnnys Spells of bnckncho often follow Or somo irregularity of the urine A cortain remody for such attoki A medicine that answers evory call Is Dontis Kidney Pills n truH speciiic Mrs U F Marshall linni m tho western part of Arapahoe Neb sys Whilu lifting bumu enrs ago I strninud myself and after that began to have troul lu with my kidnovH If I worked a little harder than usuid or caught tho slightest cold 1 was sure to uirer moro severely and at times would forced to remain in lied for a couple of dajs My buck was very sore and when I straightened after stooping sharp jmins would dart through me I hlo had frequent headaches and dizzy iijells and the kidney secretions unnoted nu omu what by their irregular action Not un til I upd Donns kidney pills was I ablo to get relief They went directly to th root of my trouble nd before long I was in good health again Plenty more proof like this from Mc Cook people Call at McConneUs drug storo and ask what customers report For sale by all dealers Price 30 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N V sola agents for the United Statos Remember the name Donns aud tnko no other NOTICE TO CKEDITOICb In the Iomitj court nf I tec Willow eotiuty Nelinitkn In the iiintUrof the e talof Cott rad tiitiiiim You an hi riliy notified that I will sit at th count court room in Mctook in county on the Otli claj f March rd at nint oclock a in toriceho auI cnminc all claim- ami da inauiK niu t estate with a lew t their adjustment a ad allowance The time limited Tor the jire entation of claims nKamtt -aid es tate is ix mouths In ia the litli day of lHls lnd any claim not pie enteil by that time shall lie foreer barred skaiI 1 C Mould County Judge J E Kelley attornej NOTICE Notice hereby nien that on fl e 28th ility of ilaj lHls the articles of incorporation of lh Jli onic Temple raft of Met ook Nebragkn were amended in the following Article lour thereof wa amended to read as follows The Kcneral nature of the business to be tran acted and the object of this corpora tion -hall bo ti in Jc fok Nebraska upon which to erect a butldint tolnt known a- a Ma onic etnple anl to furnish in said huildiiu a room or rooms to Le u ed for Masonic ami rooms for olhces storif anil other purpo es and to furnish -aid olllcu and store rooms and to con t met and erect in said building an opera and to lea o and recehe the rent of xaiil huildiiiK and any and till parts of it and to op rate and maintain s anl opera hoii e and to rcci ie the prolitB therefrom This corporation shall hae th power to contract for and complete -aid build inn to rai c and borrow money for -aid by pledge of its corporation property or otherwi e Article Fie thereof was amended iucrcnMUK the capital lock to fortj lie thoii and dollars rticle J ilit thereof was amended to read ag follows The board of directors of this cor poration shall declare dividend- during the months of Janiiar and Julj of each jear pro vided the profits remaining after the payment or all current liabilities ofthis cor poration are Miilicient to pa the dividends or at least two and one half percent and iTat said times said profits are in ullicient to paj such dmdeuds dividend- -hall lie declared by the directors as soon as prohts accumu late to pa Mich dividend- no dividend shall be declared which will impair the capital of this company Mam mi lK iiti Ckvft scvlJ of Mi ook Nuiiask B C L Ilihiu tot k Pre ident Attest Lon Cone Secretarj h ill Ja DENTIST Farmers PncMi 112 Offico Rooms 3 and 5 Wahh Blk McCook GATEW00D VAHUb DENTISTS Office over HcAdams Store Phone 1 90 Dr J A Colter DENTIST Room rosTOKKiCE Building McCOOK NEBRASKA A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnella drug store McCook Nebraska NEILL BROS Contractors and Builders Estimates Furnished Free Phone- Shop Mack 321 Ke idence Black 312 bring your wheat to the MILL We will pay yon aj premium above the market for all milliner wheat All Goods at Lowest Possible Market Prices Whole Wheat Rye and Graham Flour Special prices on lots of ten sacks or more SEMOLIA A fine breakfast food un- excelled in 2 lb packages gP All kinds of Mill Feed CornlBarley Chop Bran Shorts etc Orders Promptly Delivered McCook Milling Company E H DO AN Proprietor Phone 29 McCOOK
