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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
HIS QUEST.

What seek st taou at this mailman Is pace
sTseak my loves new dwelling place,
Her house Is dark, her doors are wide,
There, bat, and owl and beetle bide,
And there, breast high, the rank weeds
grow,
And drowsy poppies nod aud blow,
Sc mount swift to ride me through
The world to flnd my love anew.
L have no token of the way;
1 haste by night, press by day,
Through busy cities am bourne.
On lonely heights watch the morn
Climb UP the east, and see the light
OF waning moon CLEAN thwart my fight
Sometimes light before me fees;
follow it, till stormy seas
Break wide before, then all Is dark.
Sometimes on plains, wide, still, and stark,
Ihear a voice; L seek the sound,
And ride into hush profound.
To end her dwelling will ride
Worlds through and through, whate 'er be-
tide.''
To find her dwelling rode he forth,
In vain rode south, in vain rode north;
In vain in mountain, plain, and mart
lie searched, but never searched his heart.
Il. Frank ToOker.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
Insanity Among Sheep-Herders.

II. H., who writes in the October
Century of the tOutdoor Industries in
Southern California;" says: "Sheep
ranches are usually desolate places; Il
great stretch of seemingly bare lands,
with a few fenced corrals, blackened
and fOul-smelling; tie home and out
buildings clustered together in a hollow
or on r hillside where there is water:
the less human the neighborhood the
better.
1.-The loneliness of the life Is of itself
silent objection to the industry. Oh
this the great owners need know COM
paratiyely nothing; they can live
where they ike. But for the small
sheep-men, the shepherds, and, above
all, the herders, it is terrible life
how terrible is shown by the frequency
of insanity among herders. Sometimes,
after only q few months of the life, Il
herder suddenly goes mad. After
learning this fact, it is no longer posi-
BILE to see the picturesque side of the
effective group one so often comes up
on suddenly in the wilderness sheep
peacefully grazing, and the shepherd
lying on the ground watching them, or
the whole flock racing in solid, fieecy,
billowy scamper up or down steep
hillside, with the dogs leaping and
barking on all sides ut once. One
scans the shepherds face alone, with
plying fear lest be may be losing his
with,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
Save the old k;tcbe, ch.;rs. o,, go

Save the old kitchen chairs; cut off
the broken backs close to the seats, also
the lower part of the legs, 10 make
II convenient or comfortable height.
Then make bag the size of tho seat, of
some old ticking or other material, and
stuff it with fine shavings or slivered
husks, and after mailing it securely on
the seats, cover with bright cretonne
or chintz. The former can be bought
for twenty or twenty-five cents y yard,
and would be forwarded from a city
store on sending the order, and giving
an idea of the ground color wanted.
Two or three plain leaf-fans painted u
bright red would decorate the wall very
prettily. If the edges are worn, they
can be bound with some material of the
same color. The lower part of the
dresser would look well, if, instead of
being covered with the usual pieces of
scalloped newspapers, it were covered
with strip of crash towelling, the ends
fringed QUE, and hanging down about q
quarter of yard or SO, and the center
ornamented with a large letter in red
cotton or worsted embroidery.-CS. NJ,
in American Agriculturist for October.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
The Mosquito at Close Quarters.
Forest and Stream.

Forest and Stream.
Viewed through the microscope the
mosquito presents a picture of mechan-
ical ingenuity as marvellous in execu-
ton as it is devilish in design. In the
bill alone, which seems SO fragile to the
unaided sight, there is a combination of
five distinct surgical instruments.
These are, a lance, two meat saws, and
q suction pump. The fifth instrument
have forgotten, but labor under the i'm
preston that it is portable Coriiss en-
CINE to run the rest of the factory with.
| know that the hum of the mosquitoes
in the cottonwood thickets along the
lower Mississippi reminded me con-
stantly of the hum of manufacturing
village, and several times l walked
back several miles looking for
town, before [ could convince myself
that the buzzing l heard was made by
mosquitoes, with their engines running
to sharpen their saws. When the in
sects operate on man, the lance is
first pushed into the flesh, then the two
saws, placed back to back, begin to
work up and down to enlarge the hole.
Then the pump is inserted, and the VIC
TINS blood is syphoned up into the res
ervoir. carried behind, and finally, to
complete the cruelty of the perform
ance, the wretch drops Il quantity of
poison into the wound to keep it irri-
tatad.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
Rescued Lads.

Five days after the disastrous earth
quake at Casamicciola two youths aged
IL and Is, We're taken out alive from the
ruins of demolished house. They
were in room on the ground floor,
and the floor of the room above being
sustained by 4 chest of drawers and q
sewing machine-one of the lads was :,
tailOr-had confined them, as it were,
in narrow cavities OF g few square feet.
The day before their rescue photo
graph of this particular heap of ruins
had been taken, and the men below
heard the noises above them, and called
out in vain. The next day d brother of
one of them, who had escaped, began
digging in the search for the body of
his father. He heard q voice from be-
low, and the engineers, after working
for SIX hours, brought out the first of
the survivors. Fortunately, the two
lads had within their reach a quantity
of fruits, tomatoes and bottle of vine
gar, and with these they had sustained
life, though exposed to the stencil OF
decompOslng body in the same apart
ment. The first boy rescued told that
there was another person alive, ami the
work was resumed. In q couple of
hours his heal was uncovered and re-
storatives administered One of his
feet was fast under beam, and that
had 10 be cut in two before his r9frase
was effected. The youth first rescued
aided in the search and rescue CO his
companion in misfortune, having en-
firely recovered from the effects CT his
but the other had to be
removed to the hospital i'll an exhausted
condition.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
The Pride of the Regiment.

Although not pertaining to the wri
er's own personal recollections, there
yet may appropriately be introduced
| here some brief mention of another
pet, who, from being the ''pride of his
regimnet," gradually arose to the dig:
nifty of national fame. [ mean "Old
Abe" the war eagle of the Eighth Wis
consin volunteers.
Whoever it may have been that first
conceived the idea, it was certainly a
happy thought to make a pet OF an
eagle. For the eagle is our national
bird, and to carry an eagle along with
the colors of a regiment, on the march
and in battle, was surely very appro-
pirate indeed.
ssOld Abe's" perch was on a shield
which was carried by q soldier, towhom,
and to whom alone, he looked as to a
master. He would not allow anyone to
handle or to carry him except this sol
der, nor would he ever receive his food
from any other PERSONS hands. He
seemed to have sense enough to know
that he was sometimes a burden to his
master on the march, and, as if TO re-
lieye him, would occasionally spread
his wings and soar aloft to great
height, the men of all the regiments
along the line cheering him as he went
I'D. He regularly received his rations
from the commissary, the same as any
enlisted man. Whenever fresh meat
was scarce and none could be found for
him by foraging parties, he would take
things into his own claws, as it were,
and go out on 4 foraging. expedition
himself. Sometimes he would be gone
two or three days at time; but he
would invariably return, and seldom
came back without 4 young lamb or
chicken in his talons. His long alb
sences occasioned his regiment no con-
Germ, for the men knew that, though he
might fly many miles away, no would
be quite sure to find them again.
At Jackson, Mississippi, during the
hottest of the battle before that city,
"Ole Abe" scared up into the air and
remained there from morning till the
fight closed at night, having greatly en-
joyed, no doubt, his rare bird's-eye
view of the battle. He did the same at
Mission Ridge. He was, [ believe,
struck by the enemy's bullets two or
three times, but his feathers were so
thick that his body was not much hurt.
The shield on which he was carried,
however, showed so many marks of the
enemy's balls that it looked on top SIS If
groove-plane had been run over it.
At the Centennial Exposition, held III
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
Improve the Kitchens.

The question is, what shall be done to
the kitchen to make it bright and at
tractive, and the suggestions given are
intended partially for country Kitchens,
which seem to be very often the thor
oughfare, if not the resting-place for
the family. Vines, OF course, would be
in the way in the summer, and at that
time they are not needed so much, as
the kitchen doors are frequently draped
with honey-suckles or morning-glo
on the outside, as well as the kitchen
windows. But in the winter, when it
is cold and cherries outside, and the
graceful vines have turned into brown,
dead-looking stalks, try to have some
thing green and fresh in the kitchen
Train vine, if only q sweet-potato
vine, on one of the windows. and be-
sides, having saved all the empty cans
from canned fruit or vegetables, paint a
couple of them red; have two holes Dor
ed in each near the top, through which
to run the strings, by which they are to
suspended over the window. In one
plant, "Wandering jew" or 3 Trades
cantia, so easy to grow from slips, and
which will soon run on the sides, max
ing it thing of beauty; and IN the
other, which must be necessarily full OF
water, lay an old sponge or piece of
white cotton, over which sprinkle flax
seeds thickly, keeping the cotton moist
where they are sown. In two or three
weeks these will sprout, and the cotton
will be covered with beautiful green
messy looking growth.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
The Cilley-araves Duel.

/, Wash. Letter in Philadelphia Record.
WASHINGTON, September 21.-Now
for the true story of the causes leading
to the Cilley-Graves duel of 1888. That
was good while ago, but the truth has
been locked up ever since in musty
old corner of the postoffice department,
and the truth is ever new. In 1888
Ruggles was New England senator
and chairman of the senate committee
on postoffices and post roads. CIlley
and Graves were members of the house.
James Watson Webb was publishing
the Courier and Enquirer in New York.
Matthew l.. Davis was writing letters to
it from the capital as its "Spy in Wash
ington." guess his instructions We're
to make them "spicy." All these peo-
pie, with the exception of Ruggles, were
young and hotheaded. One day New
England Jonathan came to Washington
with an improved mail bag. He went
to see old Amos Kendall Green, then
postmaster-general, whose name is kept
fresh in the Washington mind by Ken
dali Green, the pleasant little park where
stands the Columbian institution for the
deaf and dumb. Kendall thought the
new mail bag wouldn't work, and he
told Brother Jonathan so. Very much
discouraged, Jonathan was about to
leave for home in disgust, when q friend
suggested that he call on Chairman
Ruggles, of the senate committee on
postOffices and post roads, and see if he
could not get him to carry through
congress bill directing the postmaster
general to use the mail bag he had con-
demned. Ruggles listened to his elo-
quence, looked at his mail bag and re-
fused to take charge of his bill. He
agreed with the postmaster general.
The new invention wouldn't work. That
night the inventor told his story to a
sympathizing crowd of loungers in the
lobby of his hotel. The cynic of the
crowd remarked, when the inventor
had finished: "You went at Ruggles
the wrong way. He didn't want to hear
your eloquence; he wanted to see your
money. Why didn't you show him
$500? That's the sort of bill he
wanted to sce." The inventor murmur-
ed his regret that he had not known his
man, and then sorrowfully took himself
home. In q day or two q small portion
of the story of his visit to Washington,
highly spiced with many reflections on
Ruggles in the style of the hotel lobby
cynic, appeared in the Washington let
ter of the New York Courier and En-
quirer. Cilley, who was not otherwise
than as a personal friend of
Ruggles, denounced the statements in
the Courier aud Enquirer ON the floor
of the house as absolutely false. There
upon, James Watson Webb sent Graves,
the Kentucky congressman with chal-
lenge to Cilley. The latter declined to
receive challenge from the man who
had printed such a story anout his friend.
''Then you must light me, said Graves
So he did. Henry A. Wise, nf Virginia,
being second for Graves, ,,i'i George
w. Jones, OF Iowa, second for Cilley.
Cilley was killed, and congress passed !
the stringent anti-dueling law which
ever after restrained the hot bloods of
The capital.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
Tame Butterflies.

|. A lady living in London writes in the
"Open Letters of the October Century ::
'sIn the Century for June, 1888, Mr..
Gosse describes monument in which
the sculptor has carved child holding
out her hand for butterflies to perch on.
He goes on to say that this was criti-
cised as improbable, even by SO exact
an observer rs Mr.. Tennyson. 1t may
therefore be of some interest to your
readers to record the following facts
from my personal experience:
Zone summer l watched the Larvae of
the swallow-tailed butterfly through
their different stages, and reserved two
chrysalides to develop into the perfect
insect. In due time one of these fairy
like creatures came out. placed it in
small Indian cage made of fine threads
of bambo. A carpet of soft moss and
pleasant home for my tiny Psyche l
found that she greatly enjoyed Il repast
of honey when some was placed on q
leaf within her reach, she would uncoil
her long proboscis and draw up the
sweet food with great apparent enjoy
ment. She was so tame that it became
my habit, once or twice a day, to take
her on my finger; and while L walked
in the garden she would take short
flights hither and thither, but was al
ways content to mount upon my hand
again. She would come on my finger
of her own accord, and, if the day was
bright, would remain there as long as l
had patience to carry her, with her
wings outspread, basking in the sum
beams, which appeared to convey ex-
quisite delight to tho delicate little crea-
ture.
81 never touched her beautiful wings
She never fluttered or showed any wish
to escape, but lived three weeks of
tranquil life in her tiny home; and then
having, as 1 suppose, reached the limit
of butterfly existence, she quietly ceased
to live.
"On the day Of her death the other
butterfly emerged, and lived for the
same length of time. Both were equal
ly tame, but the second showed more
intelligence, for she discovered that by
folding her wings together she could
easily walk between the slender bars of
the cage: and having done, she would
fly to window and remain there, bask-
ing in the sun, folding and unfolding
her wings with evident enjoyment, until |
l presented my finger, when she would |
Immediately step upon it and be carried |
back to her cage"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
Philadelphia in 1876. "Old Abe. occu-

Philadelphia in 1876, "Old Abe occu-
pied a prominent place, on his perch,
on the west side of the nave in the Agri-
cultural building. He was still alive,
though growing old, and was the OBJ
served of all observers As was but just
and right, the soldier who had carried
him during the war continued to have
charge of him after the war was over,
until the day of his death, which oc-
CURED at the capital of Michigan two or
three years ago From ''Recollections
of Drummer-boy," by Harry Nj. Kief-
fer, in ST. Nicholas for October.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
The Importance of Fewer Acres
Pnclac Rural spirit.

Pacific Rural spirit.
If ten acres of lard cost 800, and If
they produce $40 worth of crops they
are paying ten per cent. on the invest
ment, just as much as if 800 had been
loaned ut the rate of ~ per cent. inter
est. Now, there is no man who would
think of living on the interest of 800
loaned at even this high rate, out in
stances are not rare of men making q
good living for themsevelves and their
families from the careful cultivation of
ten acres of land. We mention this
fact to prove that the two frequent ex-
preston that Charming does not pay'
is not In accordance with fact. There
is no other business in which a man
would attempt with 800 to support
family. Yet still there is truth in the
remark, so far as it is applicable to
farming as it is carried ON in some sec
tons of the country. If man invests
81 900 in 100 acres of land and makes
only ten of them, or 500 worth, avail
able, he cannot expect to derive profit
from the other ninety acres, any more
than he could expect an interest upon
$1,000 when he had only SlU0 of it in
vested. Our position Is that land actu-
ally cultivated pays better interest on
the money invested than any other ven
turo The farmer cannot expect idle
acres to yield him IL revenue any more
than he can idle dollars Unfortunate
ly, the farmer of the northwest has, az
a general thing. nine acres of idle land
where he has one productive one, and
the one productive acre is expected to
pay the interest on the price of the
whole ten. Extraordinary management
would be necessary 10 make this kind
of farming pay.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04

So the two worked very hard, and a.
harvest time they had never raised such
a crop before. They had earned money
enough to buy the coveted strip of land
and still have bit to spare. "See,'
said the man. tive have the land and
the wish as we'll"
The farmers wife then suggested
that they had better wish for cow and
a horse. But the man replied: "Wife,
why waste our wish on such trifes
The horse and COW We'll get anyway
Sure enough, in years time the
money for the horse and cow had been
earned. Joyfully the man rubbed his
hands. ''The wish is saved again this
year, and yet we have what we desire.
How lucky wo are!"
But now his wife seriously adjured
him to wish for something at last.
SHOW that you have 4 wish to be
granted" she said, "you slave and toll,
and are content with everything. You
might be king, emperor, baron, even !,
gentleman farmer, with chests over
flowing with gold; but you don't know
what you want"
"We are young and life is long," he
answered. There is only one wish in
the ring, and that is easily said. Who
knows but sometime we may sorely
need this wishp Are we in want of
anything? Have we not prospered, to
all peoples astonishment, since we pos
sessed this ring! Be reasonable and
patient for awhile. In the meantime
consider what VIC really ought to wish
for"
And that was the end of the matter.
1t really seemed as if the ring had
brought a blessing into the house.
Granaries and barns were lucky to over
flowing, and in the course of fewyears
the poor farmer became a rich and
portly persons, who worked with his
men afield during the day, as if he, too,
had to earn his daily bread; but after
supper he liked to sit in his porch, con-
tented and comfortable, and return the
kindly greeting OF the folk who passed
and who wished him a respectful good
evening.
So the years went by. Sometimes,
when they were alone, the farmers wife
would remind her husband of the magic
ring, and suggest many plans. But as
he always answered that they had
plenty of time, and that the best
thoughts come last, she more and more
rarely mentioned the ring, and at last
the good woman ceased speaking of it
To be sure, the farmer looked at the
ring, and twirled it about as many as
twenty times day; but he was very
careful never to wish.
After thirty or forty years had passed
away, and the farmer and his wife had
grown old and white-haired, and their
wish was still unasked, then was God
very good to them. and on the same
night they died peacefully and happily.
Weeping children and grandchildren
the two collins; and as one
wished to remove tho ring from the still
hand as a remembrance, the eldest son
said: 'sLet our father take his ring into
the grave. There was always mystery
about it; perhaps it was some dear re-
Our mother, too, 50 often
looked at the ring-she may have given
it TO him when they were young
So the old farmer was buried with the
ring, which had been supposed to be a
and was not; yet it brought
rs much good fortune into the house as
heart could desire.-[ Anna Eichberg,in
St. Nicholas for October.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04

81 always call her my dear wife, ~
said Mr.. Jenkins, sand [ mean it. You
ought to see the bills come in.''
When a young man kisses a girl and
calls il heaven, it shows plainly that he
doesn't know any more about heaven
than a gosling knows about Beethoven S
sonatas.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04

Proof Against Water and Insects.
1t is said that the oil of white birch
bark dissolved in alcohol will render
fabrics waterproof and insect-proof
without injury to the material.
National Republican., 1883-03-05
MORE DAMAGE FROM FLOODS.
A Town in Illinois submergcd-Pcopic
Fleeing from Arkansas City.

Carlo, Ill. Mar. 4.-Thc town of Colum.
bana is entirely submerged only the roofs of
two houses being visible. Eleven houses havo
floated away. One house has been demolished
by cake of ice. The citizens have fled to u
place of safety.
ARKANSAS CITY, ARK, Mar 1.-The river
is rising steadily, and great flood is inevi-
table. Citizens arc taking their property to
places of safety, families are leaving on every
train, and the negroes are fleeing panic
stricken.
HELENA, ARK, Mar. AT 1 o'clock yes
terday afternoon the gauge exhibited A feet
. inches, this being within 81 inches oil the
maximum height last year. An examination
of the level from where it leaves tho hills,
one mile above the town to Long lake, four
miles SOUTH shows that it is substantial.
Between Apperson place. nine miles south of
this place, and Old Town, there arc several
newly repaved breaks that are regarded as
doubtful, but as a large force is at work on
the weak points, it is thought they may be
made secure. There are no apprchensions of
the Helena river overflowing The Midland
railway trains stop at Duncan station, several
miles this side of Clarendon, the track being
submerged. Coahomo county, Mississippi,
opposite Helena, is vast sea of water and the
crops are necessarily greatly retarded in that
section No serious loss of stock is reported
and measures are being taken to prevent it.
National Republican., 1883-03-05
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