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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
-V r Time Card McCook Neb MAIN LIMB HAHT DEFAT No o Central Time 4027 P m 2 12 r 10 It 600 a M 715 a u 942 F K 400 A M MAIN LINE WEST DEPAST No 1 Mountain TImo 950 a m a Arrives 13 15 li6 r Kl T If Ul0l25 A M 1217 A K IMFEBIAIi LINK No 170 arrives Mountain Timo 505 v m No 175doparU 710 A M Sleoplriff dining and reclining chair cars soata froo on through trainR Tickots sold and irnggngo chocked to any point in tlio United Statos or Canada For information Hmo tables mnps and tick et call on or write D F Hon tot tor Agont McCook Nebraska or L W Wnkoloy General Paesuneer Agout Omaha Nobraska RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS Engino 10G5 b recoiving repairs over drop pit No 2 Engino 318 has boon run into tho bauk shop for a general overhauling Engino No 2829 is over drop pit No 1 for usual repairs and some netw flues L V McMullen has quit the air department and gone to EdgemontSD Mr and Mrs Ira Converse are spend ing tho iiolidajs with his folks at Hond ley Earl Spencer is in charge of tho boil ormakers during J O McArthurs ab sence O W Bronson lodge 487 will instnl oilicers Sunday afternoon and have an initiation The freight house will bo closed Christmas dny only perishable freight being delivered Brakeman C E Materson of Curtis has been promoted to conductor and will run out of Curtis The electric company is planting its poles from the plant to the city through the companys yard this week J D Young will leave today or t morrow for Chicago and points east to bo absent some time looking over the situation Mrs Alfred Harris and little son El more departed Tuesday night on li for Trenton Mo to visit her parents Mr and Mrs C F Elliott Engineer and Mrs Will Dungan and two children went down to Hastings on 2 yesterday morning to visit over Christmas with relatives Mr and Mrs J G Schobel and Mar jorie went down to Minden this morn- ing to spend the day with her parents Postmaster and Mrs L M Copeland Engine No 350 recently out of the backshop after an overhauling had a try out in the yard Monday and re ceived her final adjustments before go ing into service WM Gardner and family are awa on vacation during the holidays and Nr V Franklin is clerk in Emersons office meanwhile I N Biggs has Franklins place in the air gang Gary Dole the new machineshop fore man came down from Denver Monday evening on 16 and assumed his new po sition and duties Tuesday morning His mother arrived on 14 same evening and they have gone to housekeeping in the south Woods cottage 2nd street east The bunk house near the master me chanics office building caught fire shortly after supper Tuesday evening and tho interior of the car was prettj badly charred up while the contents of tho car were practically destroyed by fire and water Tho car has been oc cupied by the buildings and bridges gang now employed on the depot im provements and their personal effects went up in the general destruction of the interior of the car The company fire department handled the fire effect ively and promptly True Spirit of Christmas Tho boys at headquarters have been exhibiting some of tho true spirit of Christmas toward a fellow employ o in ill health and the following cheerful note accompanied the gift McCook Neb Dec 19th 1908 Mr C E Sanberg Akron Colorado My Dear Mr Sandberg Centuries ago Three Wise Men saw a new star in the firmament afar in the Eastern sky With that as a guide they traveled to Bethlehem of Judaja where they found a newly born babe in a manger There they presented their gifts and adoration for the New Light of the World Thus was born the first Christina and ever since the beautiful custom of gift offerings to loved ones has been practiced in all Christian countries With the spirit of Christmas per meatingtheir hearts your many friends and co workers ask you to kindly accept the inclosure as a Christmas gift with the added hope that health strength and prosperity may yet be yours Let not sorrow crowd thee brother There is Light along the way Night is but a shadowed fancy Rays of sunshine ope the day Cheer thy heart with hopeful thinking Health and strength will yet be thine Let thy lungs be ever drinking Freshening air from natures shrine Patronize home industry by smoking Commercial Club 10 cent cigar and the Smoke 5 cent cigar Mme Gesffrlns Husband Mmo Geoffrin like moat Frenchwo men had tho gift of making phrases When Rulhlere had rend In Jier salon a work upon Itussla which sho feared might involve him in difficulties she offered htu a sum of money to burn It The author waxed wroth at the in sinuation implied and broke out into an eloquent assertion of his courage and Independence She listened pa tiently and then In a quiet tone of voice said How much more do you want M ItulhJerc She married at the nge of fourteen M Geoffrin a wealthy glass manufacturer and Heu tenunt colonel of the national guard His duty ns husband seems to have been to provide the funds for her so cial campaigns and to watch over the details of the menage It is related of him that some person gave him a his tory to read and when lie -asked for the successive volumes regularly palmed off upon him the first as if It were new At last he was heard to say tJnt he thought the author re peated himself a little Abook print ed In double columns he read straight across the page remarking that It seemed to be very good but was rath er abstract One day a visitor in quired after the silent white haired old gentleman who was in the habit of sitting at the head of the table Oh he was my husband rep0 Mme Geoffrin before he died Argonaut Birds That Make Incubators In the Incubator the pale yellow chicks their soft down not yet quite dry in places fell in their attempts to rise and walk like men dead drunk Theres another said the chicken farmer as an excited little head came out of an egg Wonderful things these incubators Would you believe that theres a bird that makes them Yes sir a bird the megapode makes its own incubator every time it has a nest of eggs It Isnt bothered like other birds with the long and monotonous work of sitting The megapode hails from Australia the Barrier reef country Its incuba tor is a simple affair merely a great mound of leaves In these leaves it buries its eggs knowing that in that hot moist climate the leaves will fer ment and in their fermentation give off just enough heat to hatch the chicks Who can deny intelligence to this bird which makes its own incubatoi to hatch out its own eggs New Or leans Times Democrat Belling the Cat Who will bell the cat is a curi ous old proverb famous in parable and in history The mice says the para ble held a consultation how to secure themselves from the cat and they re solved to hang a bell about the cats ueck to give warning when she ap proached but after they had resolved on doing it they were as far off as ever for who would do it Both parable and proverb have im mortalized themselves in history When the Scottish nobles met at Stir ling in a body they proposed to take Spence the obnoxious favorite of James II and hang him and so get rid of him Ah said Lord Grey thats very well said but wholl bell the cat That will I said the black Earl Angus He undertook the task accom plished it and was called Archibald Bell the Cat until his dying day Glasgow Times A Queer Census When I was last in India said the globe trotter they were taking the census The returns were most re markable In the Allahabad census thirty five citizens described them selves as men who rob with threats of violence There were 22G flatter ers for gain There were twenty five hereditary thieves There were twenty-nine howlers at funerals There were 145 ear cleaners There were seventy six makers of crowns for idols There were fourteen heredi tary painters of horses with spots There were nine professional false witnesses It seems remarkable doesnt it Maybe though if we too told the strict truth to the census taker our own census would seem quite as quaint as that of India Mathematics Now boys said a schoolmaster a cabman who drove at the rate of six miles an hour left London being followed three minutes later by anoth er driver proceeding at the rate of seven miles an hour Where would they meet At the nearest public house an swered a promising scholar London Tit Bits Overtime Look here said the office boy I think the boss ought to gimme a bit extra this week but I guess he wont What for asked the bookkeeper For overtime I wuz dreamin about me work all las night London Truth v All Depends Tourist It look like pretty good soil around here What crops do the farmers grow in this section Na tive That all depends stranger Tourist Depends on what Native On what sort of seed they puts in Just So I wish you would use your influ ence to to attend our poker party this evening Jinx Why hes the poorest poker player you ever saw I know It Houston Post Command large fields but cultivate amall ones Virgil She JH ear of the JtEohoes i I In the Grotto of Modern Miracles N OWHI3RE in New York city at midnight on New Years eve Is here a busier throng of hurry- Ing humanity than at the junc tion of Park row and the Bowery In termingled with the throng are pierry panhandlers as happy as the richest for New Years eve Is their harvest time Few of the panhandlers who fre quent the downtown districts are plying their vocation as old Trinity tolls out the midnight hour- in the chimes The belated ones are hurry ing to a dive at Chatham square there to meet brother mendicants and joy fully celebrate with the money beg ged from New Year shoppers nore one may witness nightly trans formations more wonderful than in the famous Court of Miracles in old Paris which Victor nugo describes in Notre Dame The blind see tho dumb talk the hunchback loses all traces pf his deformity the deaf hear missing limbs are grown In a twin kling and the lame discard their crutches and dance iu glee Of all the nights In the year the gladdest in this dive In the Bowery I i New Years eve Not until long nftc j the late dawn does the drunken rev- the shoulders to tho middle of the back Bill awakes with a yawn and slowly ndjustB Ids stock in trade to Us proper resting pftice between his shoulders while giving his order to the waiter As the waiter sets out the drinks the hoboes pass around the bill The blind examine it closely the lame dance with it In their hands and the armless feel of the paper with the air of one who Is used to it The bill is passed around the merry crowd and greeted with enthusiasm until taken by Green Goods Ike Its a fake he cries a bad Imitation- And the drinks are on Pedes trian Patrick and Silent James for it Is a counterfeit New York World How Time Travels - When- St Pauls strikes noon on Jan 1 1909 the new year will come into being somewhere In the Pacific ocean on a Hue following longitude 180 oast which Is exactly opposite Greeuwlch meridian on the other side of the globe Geographers draw the line to avoid passing through any of the Pacific islands for If it diO the times and days of the inhabitants would be hopelessly muddled Vanua one of the Fiji Islands for Instance would be otherwise divided by the line whore the days and years begin and end so thnt while it would be Jan 1 on the western side It would be Dec 1 a few paces away on the east of the line One could thus walk Into yesterday and a moment later re turn tomorrow How the new year travels is curi ously illustrated by Its passage ic xs Great Britain It reaches Greenwich as the time center at midnight exact ly twelve hours after it started f - GBEAT GKAF HE CRIES elry cease and then only when the merrymakers have spent all of their ill gotten gains and are unconscious to their surroundings The grotto of modern miracles is in the rear of a saloon a room 40 by 23 feet Around are scattered tables and chairs of the cheapest kind Thick fumes of smoke from bad pipe tobac co the cheapest cigars made and nau seating cigarettes permeate the at mosphere The stranger can hardly breathe Through the sickening atmosphere can be detected the odor of vile beer and still worse whisky that here is sold for 5 cents a goblet From behind the partition a bar tender with half a nose and but a small portion of his right ear -to tell the tale of his battles dispenses liq uor through an opening to a lirrying waiter At the tables sit the motley group of hoboes panhandlers and jailbirds Fortunate beggars who have had a prosperous day are spelling money freely small change for the most part Whisky and beer flow a they have never flowed before in the 3ear Nearly all the mendicants have ar rived The last two known as Pedes trian Patrick and Silent James are greeted with an uproar Hanging from the neck ol Silent James is the sign that reads O O DEAF AND DUMB C O The sign he casts aside and with a J yell he dances and laughs and calls upon all present to drink at his ex pense Above his head he waves a five dollar bill Great graf he cries I touch er bloke fer de long green dead easy Pedestrian Patrick discards a pair of well worn crutches and stands up straight on what before appeared to bo helpless limbs I told his nobs dat wed pray fer im he yells At this point Blind Phil throws down his sign and peers intently at the five dollar bill to make sure it is genuine I didnt make that much all day he says ruefully Asleep near by with his head bowed on the table is Bill the humpback No one ever had a more pronounced deformity of the spine Bill cries Blind Phil BUI look at de long green Pedestrian and Si lent copped Bill And then as Bill does not awake from the slumber of five cent whisky the blind beggar hits the bump and lo it gees with the 1 motion of his hand sliding down from i enteen minutes later it gets to Glas gow and another six minutes pass be fore the new year has captured Pen zance These are the true times for these places though Greenwich time is the one accepted But Ireland is proud in possession of her own chro nology and it will be 1225 at night in London before 1909 reaches Dub lin Loudon Chronicle New Year Superstitions It is considered a sure sign of death to see ones own shadow in the moon light on New Years eve You court misfortune by leaving the house on New Year before some one has entered it You must hope for the luck moreover of having the first to enter a dark haired man Seeking to know what good or evi the New Year would bring superstitious people ii the long ago girt themselves with svws and sat on the roof of their Iioisse on New Years eve They iK o kelf ar the crossroads on a cow hide for the snne purpose The first thing b jimit might think would be pUouia It is bid Iutk to carry anything out of the kose on the New Year before somethng has been brought in But the best luck of all which even those most scornful of portents may not despise is to begin the New Yeaf owing no man a cent Philadelphia Press A NEW LEAF He came to my desk with a quivering HP The lesson was done Dear teacher I want a new leaf he said I have spoiled this one In place of the leaf so stained and blotted I gave him a new one all unspot ted And into his sad eyes smiled Do bel ter now my child I went to the throne with a qulverinpsoul The old year was done Dear Father hast thou a new leaf for me I have spoiled this one Ee took the old leaf stained and blotted 4 DO BETTEB NOW t And gave me a new one all unspotted And into my sad heart smiled Do better now my child Forward For Practical Gifts try BeGroff Cos IHDIAN0LA Mary Christmas Reuben Pinch of Cambridge was in the city Monday t M F Akers and family drove over to J Ludell Kansae SaturdajMo speed Christmas vacation Eoy Minnick of Cambridge spent Sunday in Indianola Joe Reiter has been troubled with the rsore throat for the past few days Miss Fagan who teaches on Missouri Ridge left for her home in Fremont Saturday where 3he will spend the Christmas vacation Miss Jessie Hethcote returned home from California Sunday night wbeie she has been for the past few months Hayes Moyer and family of Missouri Ridge were city visitors Saturday Mr Wright and son Ployd of Goltry Oklahoma are visiting at the home of her brother C B Hoag this week Si Only A Few Days More before Xmas Come Now V Wetjcan help you get a useful gift Furs Table Linen Ladies Belts Hand Bags Combs Collars Hosiory f Umbrellas Dress Goods Drawn WorkQDoilies all are appropriate Jim Springer of Danbury is now hold ing down the job of lineman of tho Havana Telephone Co in the absence of Mr Akere Mr and Mrs Ira D Pennington of McCook were Indianola visitors Sunday James Boldman returned home from Broomfleld Nebr Wednesday morn ing where he has been for the pist two weeks Church Announcement The Christmas services of the German EvangelicalLuthernn congregrtion will be held in thej following order 7S0 p m Thursdaj childrens service at par sonage 607JJ5th street East 1000 a m Friday sermon in frame building of East Ward school 230 p m Satur day sermon in frame Ibuilding of the East Ward 6chool 1000 a in Sun day after Christmas sermon iu frame building of Eat Ward school Everything in drugs McConnell e House Grocery A full line of dainty tea biscuits and wafers im ported from London Eng land Just the thing for reception parties and dinners Fone 30 117 B street W
