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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1909)
I One Moment Please Whos the Town Buster v r - Bj orr i mMr u The citizen who sneers at his own town The citizen who helittles local en 4 terprises The citizen who scoffs at home im provements The citizen who buys liis household goods by mail The citizen who gets his job print ing done outside That mans THE TOWN BTJSTER fl TEMPERANCE COLUMN Conducted by the McCook W C T U i i Fathering It is said that the world needs mother ing It needs to be taken within the strong and tender arms of the mother love which will soothe its querulousness heal its wounds and kiss away its tears It needs that beyond a doubt Not for a long while yet will there be too much mothering too much sympathy and comforting and kindly ministry But there is too little of something else For lack of this something else motherhood has to nurse a million unnecessary wounds and sooth a million uncalled for sorrows and the world goes bumping crashing at cost of nerve and health and life ov r rucks which uu i be in the way at all The i i n human love and pity are one shun a the bird of blessing that should hi healing in her wings describes inste of the straight course to happiness hi health she ought to follow a hureessit of vicious circles of non advance or best a slow spiral cf ascent that is hear breaking to a lover of his rncp ETKRNAL MOTHERHOOD That needed thing is fathering The motherhood of God is theoretically a late discwry of humanity As a mat ter of fact the motherhood of God has through all the ages been finding its ex pression in human life its highest vis ible expression far more than has His fatherhood Every human mother who is what a mother ought to be is an in carnate throb of the mother heart of the Eternal Life presents us with in numerable noble specimens of every grade of motherhood from the uncon Bcious insect mother who will never see her multitudinous brood and would not know them through all the stages up to the Christian mother whose love is as broad as the universedeeper than hell high as the heights of heaven and far sighted as the angels of God We must acknowledge that the evo lution of the father too often lags far in the rear of the evolution of the mother The world gets more genuine mothering more mothering that approaches its ideal twice over than it gets of father ing of the same high grade The char acteristics and demand of our civilization partly account for this and partly the fact that mothering comes by instinct implanted in the very flesh and blood and frame work of the woman while the other must be reacned by slower processes of reasoning and conscience and religion Whatever accounts for it it is true President Philip Wendell Crannell To avoid serious results take Foleys I Kidney Remedy at the first sign of kid ney or bladder disorder such as back ache urinary irregularities exhaustion and you will soon be well Commenc taking Foleys Kidney Remedy today Your complexion as well as your temper is rendered miserable by a disordered liver By taking Chamber lains Stomach and Liver Tablets you can improve both They cleanse and in vigorate the stomach and improve the digestion Daring Betting During the close of the eighteenth century the craze for gambling in Eng land rose to an extreme At curtain notorious clubs every Incident was made the subject of u wager and thou sands changed hands over the veriest trllle A certain Mr Blake made him self notorious by betting 1500 that a man could live twelve hours under water He hired u during fellow and purchasing an old ship they wen sunk together by way of settling the bet Neither ship nor man reappeared so Mr Blake had to pay up The fa mous Earl of Carlisle once staked 3000 on a single curd at faro On one occasion at Brooks another noted gambling club Lord Robert Spencer lost the last shilling of the fortune which he had obtained from his broth er the Duke of Marlborough and General Fltzpatrick was In the same condition The twain combined and borrowing a sum of money they open ed a faro hank They had a run of luck and Lord Spencers share of the proceeds came to 100000 He pock eted this cash and never gambled again London Tatler One Block of Sightseeing It was on East Elceifth street that the sightseeing wagon started Anx ious mothers placed their very small children in it then stood anxiously watching the youngsters for fear they would fall out in spite of the fact that the wagon was very low and drawn by a little white pony who went along in a walk A man walked beside the wagon A small boy on the front seat drove holding the reins in a slack way and chatting with a small child by his side now much do you charge them for a ride asked a woman on the side walk One cent said the man And how far do you go she asked Just up and down the block said the man Afraid to go any further afraid Ill lose them The woman counted the children sixteen Sixteen cents for going up and down the block There are a lot of little ways of earning a living on the east side she said New York Press The Boatswains Judgment It was somewhere in this wide wide world just where has slipped my mind and they were about to buy beef on hoof for the ships So the officer whose duty it is to make the purchase took ashore with him the bosn as representing the crew to look over the animals and either object or not They approached the first animal How will that do asked the offi cer The bosn cautiously approached the beast bent down and gingerly ran his thumb and forefinger down first one shank and then the other until the whole four shanks had been examined Straightening up he said Hell do all right sir The officer flabbergasted cried But dash it all you cant tell the good points of a bullock by the shanks Perhaps not sir but theyre the only parts we ever gets sir was the reply Pall Mall Gazette A German Holiday At Haslacli in the Kinzig valley in Germany Feb 22 is a holiday and has been observed as one for hundreds of years Once upon a time the story teller who explains its origin begins Haslach was overrun with snakes and no one knew how to drive them out One day a great flock of storks ap peared and they were the saviors of the place In recognition of this de liverance from the pest which oc curred on Feb 22 the day has been kept sacred and is known as stork day An appointed official known as the stork father parades the streets followed by as many children as care to join the procession He wears his Sunday clothes and a high hat deco rated with two stuffed storks Stops are made by this procession at houses along the line and the children re ceive gifts of sweets and small coins every householder feeling pleased to show his gratitude to the stork Nest Eggs Take a nice fresh egg and separate the white and the yolk so that the yolk will not be broken Put the white into a bowl add a pinch of salt and beat it until it is very stiff Have ready some little bowl that is pretty enough to put on the table but that will not break in the oven Pour into this the stiff beaten white and make a little hole in the middle of it with a spoon In this little hollow place the yolk still unbnken Set the dish in a ho oven and cook for three or four min utes or until the white has brownei a little and the yolk is linn Then must be a separate dish for each eg that you cook in tii way Servi right away Delineator The Echo A little boy was annisinu himself I hallooing then listening for the ecln What is the echo mamma he askei His mother attempted to explain fee ing all the while how inadequate he explanation was The little fellow trotted along at her side silent fo some minutes Then his eyes fel upon his shadow Oh I know what echo is he ex claimed joyfully Its the shadow of our voices Los Angeles Times A Palpable Hit Now sir demanded counsel for the defendant tell us what time this alleged robbery took place You had better ask your client re torted the plaintiff He had my watch He dwells nowhere who dwells j y where Mar tfal For Social Betterment Tlie National Conference of Charities and Corrections to Bo Held at Buffalo Scope of the Proceedings and Far reaching Effects of the Work past year has been an un usually Important and fruitful one in the work of the char itable and philanthropic socie ties throughout the country and the progress toward more effective and scientific treatment of the causes of poverty and crime has been notable For these reasons exceptional interest attaches to the forthcoming national conference of charities and corrections at Buffalo from June 1 to 10 inclusive It is now thirty six years since the first of these conferences was held Al though the plan of the conference has resulted in the adoption of very sys tematic methods for the conduct of the proceedings there has never been a written constitution and the confer ence really consists of a rather in formal meeting of seven or eight large bodies of men and women engaged in as many different lines of social and philanthropic work in the United States and Canada They come to gether in what is as the name implies a national conference rather than a convention and owing to the freedom of action permitted more practical re sults are often attained The president of the conference this year is Ernest P Bicknell director of the American National Red Cross in Washington Mr Bicknell is one of the foremost men In the philanthropic world in America ne is a graduate of the University of Indiana and was for a number of years a reporter on the Indianapolis News He left news paper work to become the secretary of the state board of charities of Indi ana and during his administration very many of the plans and laws which have placed that state In the fore rank of those states which most nearly meet their responsibility to the dependent defective and delinquent classes were laid In 1S9S he resigned this position to become general super intendent of the Chicago bureau of - i u m i mmmm0mmambmmKwaHBzmmxmAmm0mtn COIYRlGKT 9QS BY HARRIS EWIN5 EHNEST P BICKKKLXi charities which lie held until about a year ago At the time of the San Francisco disaster Mr Bicknell was called from Chicago to the stricken city to help straighten out the tangles in the relief work there His efficiency and diplomacy won for him national recognition and he was soon after called to Washington to become the executive head of the American Na tional Red Cross Since that time he has supervised the work of relief in the forest fire region of the northwest in the southern flood region and most recently in the earthquake zone in Italy He has just returned from the latter field of activity and his presi dential address to the conference in Buffalo will deal with Problems of Relief Growing Out of Great Disas ters The year has been one in which especial attention has been given among students of social problems and workers in the tenement districts to reforms pertaining to caring for de pendent children to the betterment of conditions in congested districts and to the opportunities for educating the public along sociological lines by use of the press The conference at the White House on the subject of treat ment of dependent children called by Mr Roosevelt resulted in bringing to light many new ideas on this theme The committee of the conference on Families and Neighborhoods of which Robert A Woods of South End House Boston is the chairman is comprised of charity organization workers of the country together with people engaged in social settlements and allied activities This section as its name indicates deals with prob lems of social service as they affect the family and the neighborhood One of the interesting developments n social work in the United States in recent years has been the application of the methods of organized charity to work for social betterment in country communities This matter will be dis cussed by Professor L H Bailey of Cornell university who was chairman of the Roosevelt country life commission There will be an important discus sion as to use of the press in forward ing social betterment and the talk on this line will be started by an address by Dr Albert Shaw editor of the Re view of Reviews on The Opportunity of the Publicist in Relation to Efforts For Social Betterment The Model Army of ihe World What army was the Mrongest of Its time Judging by results the Roman army was so from the fifth century B C onward until the division of the empire Its fighting organization was as complete as and possibly more prac tical than that of any army of today It was based on a territorial system which maintained the comradeship of locality without bringing It Into an tagonism with that of the corps for each of the thirty five Roman tribes was required to furnish to each legion four centuries of 120 men each of which worked together as a local unit The legion was divided Into five co horts or battalions of which three were troops of the line two were a kind of militia and the fifth was a de pot battalion For almost eight centu ries the army thus constituted not only conquered the then known world but acted as explorers beyond Its limits and at the same time made and un made kings and emperors in Home it self Pearsons Weekly Too Well Done Mrs Ellphalet Howe of Centervllle had never encountered Hamlet ci ther In the pursuit of literature or on the stage up to the time of her first visit to her Boston niece On that oc casion she was taken by the niece and her husband to see a performance of the play How did you like It Aunt Jane asked her nephew-in-law as he piloted the old lady up the aisle by her elbow when the performance was over If thats what you call a play I call it hard work said Aunt Jane in dignantly How you and Nettie can sit calm in your seats and see such heartless doings is beyond me Why that Hamlet man looked so sick I shouldnt have been surprised if ho hadnt lived to finish out his talking And by the expression of those other folks Ill venture to say they felt the same I had my smelling salts all ready in case o need from the first minute he came on to the platform The Finicky Humor of Leschetizky Some amusing stories are told of Leschetizky the great piano teacher whose comic spirit is one of the pre dominating features of his character It is well known that he Is a man of strong likes and dislikes When an American pianist a dozen or so years ago went to Vienna to study with him he wore his hair long a habit much affected at that time by the aspirins young artist So greatly did his gen eral appearance annoy the professor that at the end of the first lesson the student received instructions to go and have his hair cut short Although loath to part with his locks the young pianist nevertheless obeyed and turned up at the next lesson with his hair cut in the conventional way Still Lesche tizky was not satisfied There is something about you that I dont like cried the professor Your ears are too Ions nave them cut off and let your hair grow again Smiths Magazine Electrical Discharges From Plants The atmosphere surrounding our earth is known to he electrified and its charges are bound to play an impor tant part in many phenomena Atmos pheric electrification thus is responsi ble for the formation of rain and hail and while fine weather generally is characterized by the presence of posi tive electricity a change in the weath er is generally accompanied by a change in the sign of atmospheric elec tricity That the electrification of the air does exert some influence on plant growth Is inferred from the fact that electrified plants under the influence of sunshine can give off electricity from the leaves and as the air is nat urally electrified relatively to the soil all plants are bound to be in a constant state of slow electrical discharge which is made active on the rising of the sun Technical World Magazine Helped Out A grocery clerk in a small town had been considerably bored one day by solicitors for church fairs raffles char ity and other purposes and was get ting disgusted when a small red hair ed urchin came in and asked him if he could help him out with a baseball glove Got the glove with you 5 asked the impatient clerk Er no answered the urchin Then said the irritable clerk as he caught him by the neck and trousers Ill help you out without it Judge In a Dilemma A necklace of diamonds has been stolen from me said Mrs Cumrox Arent you going to notify the po lice I dont know what to do It does seem rather classy to be robbed of jewelry and yet I hate to have people think that Id ever miss a little thing like a necklace Washington Star Exclusive Where do the Hottentots live Mary a schoolteacher asked one of her pupils I dont know m said Mary prim ly Ma wont let me visit any of the people in this neghborhood The Exceptions Binks has a line new apartment Everything stationary in it I sup pose Absolutely everj thing except his wife and the cook Harpers Bazar Cynical Sillicus Do you think it Is possible for one woman to make another wom an perfectly happy Cynicus Oh yes simply by envying Record Ton cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and Jorge yourself one Thomas Carljje TALKS ON ADVERTISING V Getting New Customers And Holding Them By Henry Herbert Huff COPYRIGHT 1009 BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Mr Business Man it costs just so much for running ex penses rent light fuel clerk hire whether you sell ten or a hundred dollars worth of goods per day does it not You call them fixed expenses Now the only way to lower fixed expenses is to increaso sales Up to a certain point all excess business brings you an added profit It pays to lay hold on all you possibly can Advertising offers the best means for increasing trade New customers are attracted by leaders merchandise at unusu ally low prices An instance is told of an old lady who came nine miles to get a spool of cotton thread for 3 cents but she purchased several dollars worth of goods before leaving the store The ad has accomplished its mission when it gets a prospective patron within the doors That is the most difficult part It is then up to the merchant to make the most Of the Opportunity and win him for a permanent customer The merchant who utilizes newspaper publicity has the whole world to draw trade from Lie is confined to no particular neigh borhood He knows no barriers Wherever he can send his ad vertising there he can solicit business Some of the more ambi tious country merchants are drawing business from the big towns The advertisers opportunities are unlimited Through the news paper he can reach people he never saw or who perhaps never heard of his store But how about holding them That depends quite as much upon the merchant as the adver tising If customers receive satisfaction they will continue to come But nothing HOLDS them like continued bargain offers Have a few new specials every Saturday Keep the farmers guess ing wlmt will come next What advice can you give to the dealer starting in business What more at variance with good judgment could be imagined than for a merchant to come to town rent a store fill the shelves and counters with new goods arrange attractive displays in the windows put competent salesmen behind the counters and then WAIT for business WAIT for people to come in and buy WAIT for them to find out what he has to sell WAIT for the public to learn of his very existence And yet it is not uncommon for one to do this Advertising would have carried all such information to prospective buyers He spares no expense to have stock and fix tures the finest and yet neglects the greatest essential of all Should you inquire why he spends nothing for publicity he would probably say that pleased patrons and his window displays are sufficient ad vertising Word of mouth publicity is the best but it is too slow Gossip has wings but favorable news travels slowly And as to the window a newspaper announcement is often necessary to call at tention to it - BBBB2La2 WWUUJUHW WJJ 3 CITIZENS i THE TRIBUNE Office for Office Supplies The Call of The Coast The Seattle Exposition invites you The Pacific Coast country in the development of its marvelous civilization solicits you to journey through that land The melting snow of the mountains is a magical resource shaped to the genius of electrical and horti cultural wizards those mighty forests are the last of their kind left standing in this country there are no such orchards orange groves or floral landscapes in the world nor have there ever been On a tour of the Coast you pass through an empire where the romance of the Spanish past has been merged with the human activities of the new West See your own country see the West with its fast growing wealth population and incomparable cities and learn what a future it may offer to your sons this five thousand mile journey is a broad educa tion 1909 offers much to tempt you pHO D F HosTETTEK Ticket Agent McCookNeb L W Wkllky G P A Omaha rsreregra ffebya1 V FRANKLIN PRESIDENT 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